Food
for Thought was the chosen charity from August 2016 ! $4,200-00! Congrats! Want to know more about Food For Thought ? Click HERE |
(Logo borrowed from Food For Thought website)
Food for Thought is a lunch program that provides healthy lunches to the children in High River’s, Blackie’s and Cayley’s schools, who for various reasons are not bringing lunches to school. Some of these children go hungry all day. Our organization is here to ensure that every child has regular and reliable access to a healthy, nutritious meal every school day. This works in partnership with the schools we service. We provide a sign up sheet to each school, which will be made accessible to any parent or concerned teacher. The schools contact us with the total number on the list. Because the program is anonymous we are never told the names. Once the child is signed up we will provide a lunch for that child for the entire school year. It is our volunteers who prepare and deliver these lunches to the school everyday. Food for Thought was started when some of the local parents had learned that there are kids who are not bringing lunches to school on a regular basis. This seems to be for various reasons, such as children whose families are struggling financially but also those whose parents have become overwhelmed and frequently forget to send lunches with their children. Many of these schools do their best to provide for these children by having teachers and other parents buying and providing lunches for them. However this can quickly become overwhelming, is unreliable at times, and we have concerns for the sustainability of this as the Foothills continue to grow. Also by giving these children tasty healthy food they will be more likely to choose healthy eating in the future, maintain a fit lifestyle and therefore make our community healthier as a whole. |