One of COL's community service priorities has been to address food insecurity. This past academic (2016-17) year, COLRC (through grants by the COL Rotary Foundation and District 5950), in collaboration with The Sheridan Story, supported 88 students at Jefferson Elementary School. Each Friday afternoon during the past school year, these students received pre-packaged food bags, providing them with much needed food for the weekend. For $130, we provided a weekend's worth of meals for a student for each weekend of the school year. This was the equivalent of 7 meals/weekend, for about 39 weeks, or a total of 270 meals/year per student. For 88 students, that was about 17,150 meals!
We have been asked to support these students again this upcoming 2017-18 academic year. We would like to contribute to this effort not only with dollars, but also with volunteers. We as a club will volunteer to pack the food into students' backpacks on a designated Friday each month. Specific dates will be announced in August.
Volunteering would consist of:
1. Taking Sheridan pre-packed food bag, and putting it in a student's backpack. (The school official opens the specific student's locker.)
2. Closing the locker door.
3. Repeating for each student.
That's it! Usually we were done within 45 minutes.
More specific information to come in August/September.
Contact Jonathan Hobbs with questions.