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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looking squarely at food outreach/little free pantry and backpack feeding programs. I’ve worked in this area for decades and my smaller scale, hyper-local program provides only shelf stable food, toiletries, diapers, cleaning products (nothing fresh, no perishables, no refrigeration). We have shelves of Spam, canned tuna, pasta, dry cereals, rice, canned and bagged beans, canned soup and stews. Also juice boxes, cookies, chips, the occasional sodas, candy, granola bars.

Backpack weekend foods are even worse and junkier - typically contains Oreos, juice boxes, squish applesauce, choc milk boxes, microwaveable Mac/cheese, peanut butter crackers. The idea was to provide only that child - emergency food to get thru the weekend and require as little prep as possible, assuming the child is unattended. No condensed soup that would require using a stove and a pan.

I am stridently against the backpack program. My charity could and would provide a voucher or possibly even some fresh fruit/veg/bread etc. and or plenty of extra so as to avoid the backpack supplementation. The backpack program causes more problems.[/quote]

PP and my point is backpack food goes straight to the student with the assumption that there isn’t enough food to last the weekend. This thinking undermines parental responsibility; we the charity want to know if you don’t have enough to get thru the weekend and want to help you plan. I dont like that this removes parental responsibility and think it cultivates a lackadaisical attitude. Typically our clients don’t participate in backpack programs because they don’t need to - we are more comprehensive. Kind of undermines our support.[/quote]

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