Dyron Howell with Snack Pak 4Kids accepts a donation from the Rotary Club of Amarillo presented by Mary Stephens, Committee Chair for Snack Pak 4Kids.
 
Snack Pak 4Kids is a weekend backpack program that began serving elementary school children in September 2010. Since that time over 4,000 students in 24 school districts in the Texas Panhandle have benefited from this project. 
 
Volunteers pack 10-12 nutritious snacks in plastic bags, deliver them to the schools and place them in backpacks to be discretely sent home each Friday. The targeted students are those who live in food insecure homes as identified by the school staff. Snack Pak 4Kids provides a bag for each elementary student as well as any siblings at home not old enough to attend school.
 
Rotary Club of Amarillo adopted this project in April 2014, and many club members have come forward to package and distribute the snacks.
 
Step forward and lend a hand
Packing dates are the following Tuesday nights: September 2, 16, and 30; October 14, 28; November 11; December 2, 16.
2406 SW 3rd - Snak Pak Warehouse 
Beginning at 6pm
Sign Up to Volunteer or just show up.
Other volunteer opportunities include picking up or delivering totes to or from schools, and assembly line set up.