In Indiana, one in four children are food insecure. Children enrolled in the free and reduced lunch are often left with little or no food during the weekends. The BackPack Program ensures that area children have something to eat between Friday afternoon and Monday morning. Each Friday, students enrolled in the program receive a backpack filled with nutritious, non-perishable, kid-friendly food. Packing partners fill the packs each week. The BackPack Program is made possible through volunteers, generous donations and grants.
The Food Finders Mobile Pantry Outreach Program takes a truckload of food to areas to efficiently reach the people that need it while supplementing the work of other hunger relief agencies. It is a "farmers market" style distribution. The truck is filled with fresh produce, meat, baked goods and a variety of other items.
Mobile Pantry events are sponsored by area organizations and businesses in cooperation with Food Finders.
Life changes for children and parents when school is out for the summer. Providing healthy meals all summer on a tight budget is a problem that a lot of families face, especially families enrolled in the National School Lunch Program. Food Finders became a sponsor of the Summer Food Service Program in 2010 with 4 sites and greatly expanded in 2011 to 17. In 2011, over 10,000 meals were served to area children in need.
Programs
Summary of Ongoing Programs
Food Finders Programs
BackPack Program
Summer Food Service Program
Mobile Pantry Outreach
Mobile Food Box Program
Give someone a meal for just 28 cents.
Food Finders Food Bank began offering Mobile Food Boxes at the start of 2011. These boxes are filled with a variety of shelf-stable items. The Mobile Food Box can be purchased pre-assembled, or unassembled to be put together later as a group service project.
Click the image on the right to download a flyer with more information, or contact us at (765) 471-0062.
Volunteers at Westminster Village help fill backpacks for distribution.
Food Finders has 4 programs dedicated to ending hunger in Mid-North Indiana.
To learn more about our programs visit the program pages listed below.
