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School Food Service, as a member of the United Way of Palm Beach County’s Hunger Relief Advisory Council, as
well as a variety of their hunger relief workgroups, is always looking for ways to partner with the community to
help our children. This school year, the District partnered with the following organizations to provide weekend
meals to students and families:
• Palm Beach County Food Bank -
¾ Kicked off a new program called the ‘Weekend Food for Kids’ with 26 schools. Currently, there are
a total of 34 Backpacks/Food Bag programs (8 of them from the Lois’Food4Kids program) and 4
Food Pantries programs.
¾ Provided backpacks through the Achievement Centers for Children and Families at 2 schools.
¾ In addition, the name of the above programs were consolidated for continuity as the Palm Beach
County Food Bank Childhood Hunger Initiatives: Weekend Meal Program and School Pantry
Program.
¾ This Summer they partnered with 10 schools to continue to provide food bags. Each bag includes
2 individual breakfasts, 2 individual lunches, 3 individual snacks, 3 individual drinks, and 1 family
style dinner.
• Boca Helping Hands (BHH) Weekend Food Program reached approximately 1,500 students who
received a box of food each weekend for approximately 33 weeks of the academic year in 11 local
elementary schools.
¾ Here is a BHH Backpacks video with brief testimonials from District personnels on the issue of
child hunger in our schools and the impact that hunger relief programs can have on the kids who
receive weekend meals.
• Pan-Florida Challenge through the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County provided backpacks at
six (6) schools, in addition to direct delivery to South Grade Elementary serving a total of 469 students
throughout the seven (7) schools.
• Blessings in a Backpack provides food on the weekends for elementary school children across America
and four (4) of our elementary schools were fortunate to have this program with 401 students benefiting
from it.

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