Mission Statement: Primarily, to provide weekend food items in backpacks for selected students at South Woods Elementary School in Elkton, FL and their siblings under the age of 18. Since it began in 2010 as an outreach of Memorial Presbyterian Church in St. Augustine, the program has expanded considerably.
Services offered: Partnering with the school and community volunteers, 150 children received weekend meals for 36 weeks. Partnering with Dollar General, Hastings, Food4 kids provided $1,000+ of fresh milk to SWES families. During FSA testing week, F4K provided 1800 individual snacks to SWES students. (In mid June, 29 volunteers, working 159 hours, secured 690 cases of food to the SWES location, and packed 150 boxes and 150 bags of food, providing 300 children with weekend meals for 11 weeks during summer break.) Sept.2020 through May 2021, F4K provided over $3,400 of snacks to youth under 21 at Port In the Storm homeless youth center.
Volunteer needs: Volunteers are needed to pick up, transport, drop off, and pack food in boxes and bags.
LIAISON: ADRIENNE LYONS & NINA PITKIN
Food 4 Kids and MCWA
Vic Yerrill ~ Outgoing Director of Food 4 Kids, Debbie Coates ~ President MCWA, Adrienne Lyons ~ MCWA Liaison to Food 4 Kids, Barbara Alford ~ Incoming Director of Food 4 Kids and MCWA member
Monday, June 1st, volunteers packed 678 cases of food for the Food 4 Kids summer food distribution. We filled 2 flatbeds (to the tune of $11,000). As we weren’t able to use the school for packing, Mary Clare generously offered the Marsh Creek club parking lot.
The MCWA donation was certainly appreciated and well used to help fund the summer food program.
