Mobilizes communities to provide food on the weekends to children
News Flash! A snow day is no fun for food insecure kids. Extreme weather like that caused by the polar vortex are ratcheting up the level of concern for everyone’s well-being. If we are smart, we take all the necessary pre-cautions to stay off the roads, stay indoors, and stay warm. […]
Learn why the Need is Real for Weekend Survival Kits and the children we serve. First, a brief message from a Lansing Schools third grade teacher and next from Weekend Survival Kits on how you can help. From a Lansing Public School Third Grade Teacher: The “food bags” as the […]
At Weekend Survival Kits we know that right here in our own communities that as many as 1 in 4 school-aged children are determined as experiencing food insecurity; and that insecurity has a dramatic affect on their ability to learn. We are painfully aware that food insecurity is not just […]
At Weekend Survival Kits our success comes from the support we receive from the communities we serve. Many businesses have found that making Weekend Survival Kits the target of their volunteer and giving strategy is a good investment. Learn how feeding hungry kids is a good investment. Businesses like our […]
This is my story of academic success and food. Jacob was 5 years old – he came to my classroom in early October because he had begun in another school district, his family had been evicted, causing a move to our town. It was well after the start of […]
At this Weekday Survival Snack program update, May 2018, there are 10 schools among our current 70 elementary schools who have been participating in this test program. Based on the early responses, for most schools (in the test) there is a need, as almost all of the teachers reported funding […]
From time to time, school administrations have concerns on getting started with Weekend Survival Kits (WSK). They may see the Weekend Survival Kits program as more work to an already busy day/week – seeing challenges to the on-boarding process. Interested schools should know we have structured our delivery program so […]
Food program participation is a challenge across the nation. For parents, it is the household income which qualifies their kids for the Free and Reduced-Price lunch and Breakfast programs and subsequently the Weekend Survival Kits program. Across all three of these programs the national average of participation seems to hover […]