My students need proteins and nonperishable meats. The items that were chosen as part of this project will give our pantry the boost it needs to keep going strong for a couple more months.
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My Students
As a Title I school, we serve a diverse population of underprivileged students. Approximately 67% of our 700 students (470) receive free or reduced lunch. We have seven families (which impacts appx. 18 students at our school) who are classified as homeless – and that number does not include the 40-50 students who live with grandparents or other extended family members who struggle to care for them.
Students cannot learn if they are cold, tired, and hungry.
Our teachers regularly provide our students with clothes and food without asking for any reimbursement. We want our students to succeed and we will do anything to help them achieve their goals; even if it means giving them food out of our own family's grocery budget.
Free or reduced lunch provides school cafeteria meals to students. However, a significant number of our students (approximately 80) based on homelessness or being “doubled up” with other families, live in homes that are deemed “food insecure”. For those students, most of their meals are eaten on campus (breakfast, snack and lunch). Without intervention from the school, when they leave campus, they won’t eat again until they return to school the next school day.
My Project
In August 2016, we began a food pantry on campus, so we could provide extra food to some of our struggling families over the two-week winter break, Spring Break, and the summer months. Our pantry also regularly provides meals to families who cannot make it through the week. The pantry is supported through school food drives and donations from staff. Donations tend to be canned vegetables and starches. With the vast need in our community, we are unable to consistently keep the pantry stocked with proteins and nonperishable meats. The items that were chosen as part of this project, beef, chicken and Spam, will give our pantry the boost it needs to keep going strong for a couple more months.
More than half of students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more
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