Tanya Kim teamed up with Blessings In A Backpack, after seeing the need to feed the future of Canada. Tanya lends both her passion and her voice to the charity, while helping raise money and awareness with fundraising events across Canada, including her home town of Sault Ste. Marie.
Blessings In A Backpack is a results-oriented program designed to feed elementary school children whose families qualify for the federal free and reduced meal program, and may not have any or enough food on the weekends. Better test scores, improved reading skills, positive behaviour, improved health and increased attendance have all been attributed to the success of this program.
$100 feeds a child in the program for an entire school year. Following a donation, a school is chosen and a local grocer partners with the program to provide food for meals in the backpacks. Every Friday, students receive their backpacks with staples that require little to no preparation. They return with their backpacks on Monday ready to learn.
Blessings In A Backpack (BIB) is a non-profit organization currently feeding over 18,500 children in 16 states and now in Canada. The program is a hybrid of private sector funding and public partnership carried out in public schools. We are feeding the future of North America, one school at a time.
Join our battle against hunger to improve educational success!
Become a weekday or weekend warrior in our battle against hunger. With your help, we can reach more students in more schools. There are four ways to pitch in: Adopt a School, Volunteer, Donate, or Fundraise.
Please visit Blessings in a Backpack for more info and ways to get involved.
