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Holly Ensures Weekend Meals for Students 

Meals go hand in hand with pencils and notebooks as families prepare for the school year. School lunches alleviate the stress parents may have when it comes to mealtimes at school. However, as the weekend rolls around, this resource disappears. Our BackPack Program in NE Minnesota and NW Wisconsin ensures nutritious food to children in need on the weekend.

Holly, Administrative Secretary for Special Education and Student Services in Ashland, partners with us to provide the BackPack Program to students in her school district. “We’re very grateful to have this program and offer it to our families,” shares Holly. “Knowing children have access to healthy food and meals is very important.”

Your support of our BackPack Program allows us to source easy-to-open, easy-to-prepare food that our volunteers then pack and we’re able to mobilize to area schools. Each year, you ensure more than 106,000 weekend meals to children in the Northland who might otherwise go without. Please join Holly and others to make this a hunger-free school year so all children have the food they need to thrive. 

In addition to your financial gifts, our BackPack Program is made possible by caring volunteers.  Individuals and groups help us pack weekend bags of food with ready-to-eat meals, fruits and vegetables, cereal, and other hearty items for distribution to our region’s schools.  

Rob is a compassionate volunteer who delivers the packed bags to local schools.  “Access to good food is an important thing for kids,” shares Rob. “If kids don’t have access to food when they are hungry, how can they have quality time with their family on the weekends if their stomach is growling? How can they stay focused in school?”

More than 1,600 children a week receive weekend food from our BackPack Program, thanks to Rob and other committed volunteers. You too can have an impact on families, children, and seniors facing hunger throughout the Northland.  “Second Harvest is always my priority for volunteering,” he shares. “Come on out and join the crowd!”