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Food for Thought by Sunrise Kiwanis

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Hello from the Las Vegas, NM Sunrise Kiwanis Club! Many children are reliant on school lunch programs, but go without over the weekend and on holidays. Many of these children live in rural areas and their families do not have working vehicles. A small charter school in town used to save and package all the leftover food and snacks from meals throughout the week, and then send the food home in backpacks on Fridays with kids who would otherwise go without. This project came to a halt when kids no longer went to school in person and the school districts were delivering meals each day. Now that schools are in-person again, families are still struggling over weekends and holiday breaks. We are concerned for the children who live in poverty or with disabled caretakers who are unable to drive to the meal pick-up locations. We are concerned for the children whose parents may neglect to feed them. We are concerned for the families that have to decide between paying for groceries and utilities. We have reached out to child protective services in order to find the families most in need as well as the public school districts. What we found is that there a lot more children living in these circumstances than we thought. 
We use funds to purchase easy-to-prepare nutritious food, and each kid in each family receives breakfast, lunch, dinner, and two snacks for each day. We deliver to the families and drop-off to minimize contact. The feedback we've received from these families is heart-warming as this pandemic has hit them harder than most.
Your support will mean so much to us and so much to these children. They need us and they are our future.
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Donations 

  • Alma Rudolph
    • $20
    • 8 mos
  • Amanda Moe
    • $100
    • 3 yrs
  • Vicki Howell
    • $100
    • 4 yrs
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Ana Murphy
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Las Vegas, NM

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