Weekend Food Program:
Feeding Our Kids provides weekend food to over 49 partner schools throughout Champaign County. This food is provided at no cost to all participating children at each school. Social workers and school liaisons identify students in need and discreetly provide bags before the weekend.
How it works:
Volunteers pack food items into bags from a menu that includes 9 shelf stable items from all the food groups. Our nutrition director plans the menus based on variety, nutrition and availability. Volunteers then deliver the food to each school.
Food is purchased in bulk from Eastern Illinois Foodbank and Sam’s Club. This allows Feeding Our Kids to stretch each dollar further.
How you can help:
Volunteer or Donate to make sure that no child goes hungry.
Our Goals:
Our goals are to spread community awareness of hunger and to assist every Champaign County school in need. With 1 in every 6 children in need, hunger touches all of us, whether those struggling are our neighbors, school friends, or work colleagues. With ongoing community support, we believe we can alleviate hunger in our community! We are fortunate to work with many great organizations whose mission is to eliminate food insecurity, including the Eastern Illinois Foodbank, Illini Fighting Hunger, and Hope Center, to name a few.
What Is Food Insecurity?
According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), food insecurity is defined as “a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.” Feeding Our Kids defines food insecurity as the absence of access to food, which, for a kid, can include the lack of a full pantry as well as being unable to prepare/open the food themselves.
Our food bags are shelf-stable and include food that requires little preparation to eat and is attractive and nutritious for kids.
Each kid in a family should receive their own bag.
To view the specific schools and townships we serve, check out our “Schools We Serve” page!