Friday, Feb 3rd, 2012
5:00PM – 8:30PM
At the Harley-Davidson Fort Myers
$35 via online donation or $40 at the door.
Come out and support Blessings in a Backpack of Lee County while
enjoying another one of our fabulous Girls’ Night Out events! If you
haven’t had the chance to experience this in the past, just look at the
photos below to see how much fun we have. We’d love for you to join our
family and help support a great cause!
You will experience: amazing wines, hair styling tips, make up application and ideas, massage, professional photo's on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and a vendor alley where you can shop with local vendors.
You can purchase tickets online here http://www.blessingsinleeco.org/events/
THE BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK PROGRAM
Blessings in a Backpack is a 501C (3) non-profit organization. This
unique program is designed to provide weekend nourishment to children
grades K-5 in Title 1 schools who qualify for the Federal Free and
Reduced Meal Program. The program started within the Jefferson County
Schools area in Louisville, Kentucky in 2005. Stan Curtis, the program
founder, saw a need to help nourish the less fortunate children in our
public school system, so that they could learn at the same rate as their
classmates. By providing them with food over the weekend, it would
increase the odds of educational success. Blessings in a Backpack
started with three elementary schools in Kentucky and now serves over 50
schools across the nation.
Food is distributed through a network of volunteers and school
officials on Fridays before the children leave for the weekend. The
program serves children grades K-5 within Title 1 Elementary Public
Schools. All students served are recipients of the national Free and
Reduced Meal/Lunch program. Most of our recipients are in a household
with a single parent or with parents who are classified as working poor,
those individuals who are employed but don’t earn enough to make ends
meet.
Our weekend backpacks include ready to eat food items: Fruit Roll
Ups, Pop Tarts, Lemonade and other drink mix packs, Instant Noodles,
Peanut Butter, Macaroni and Cheese, Rice, Beans, Granola, Pasta, Instant
Potatoes, Dry Cereal, etc. All food choices are kid friendly. This
means the food distributed is healthy, light in weight and easy for
children of all ages to carry, easy to make, and non-perishable. We rely
on private donors such as you to purchase this food, as well as
supermarkets which give us a substantial discount.
A donation of just $80.00 feeds a child for an entire school year.
Contributions are tax-deductible and qualify for a tax credit for food
pantries and other food programs.
