Backpack Meals for Kids

For too many Bellevue school kids, the only meals they get are at school.  On the weekends, they don’t have enough to eat.  When children are hungry, everything else is harder, including learning.

The Backpack Meals for Kids program is working to fill that gap.

Backpack Meals for Kids provides free, easy-to-make meals each Friday so they have food to eat over the weekend.  Backpacks are also provided free to children who need them when they join the program.

Because children shouldn’t go hungry on the weekends.

Every week, volunteers fill backpacks with donated meals.

Backpacks are delivered to local high schools, middle schools, and elementary schools for students to pick up.  Low-income students receive the backpacks discreetly on Fridays to ensure their privacy.