Sack Packs

According to USDA statistics, 21% of Tennessee children live in poverty – 20% are in households that experience “food insecurity”.  During their early years, children need nutritious food to develop – both physically and mentally.

School children are able to receive lunches the through Free or Reduced Lunch Program.  This provides children with nutritious meals on school days.  However, there are some children who have no food at home to eat during the weekends.  To help eliminate this problem, the Food Bank created the Sack Pack program.  Sack Packs are bags of food that children take home from school on Friday.  These bags contain child-friendly products – easy to open, easy to feed themselves.

During the 2010 – 2011 school year, the Food Bank delivered 144,000 Sack Packs to 32 schools.

Kid’s Cafe

Kid’s Cafe partners with after-school programs to provide meals to their clients.  These after-school programs are a safe haven for latch-key children whose parents are at work when the school day ends and there is no one at home.  Once a week, the Food Bank serves a nutritious meal to children attending the program.

In 2010, the Food Bank’s Kid’s Cafe served 22,400 meals to children from low-income families.

For further information about our Children’s Program, please contact Holly Martin at (423) 622-1800 or hmartin@chattfoodbank.org.