SAN ANGELO, Texas — The Concho Valley Regional Food Bank is seeking volunteers to donate one hour each week delivering food bags to local elementary schools for Food2Kids – a backpack program that helps supplement food over the weekend for those students who need it, according to a CVRFB press release.
“Beyond today, tomorrow and later down the road they don’t know where their next meals are coming from,” CVRFB Executive Director Lee Pipkin said. This program, Pipkin said, helps fill that gap.
Volunteers will pick up the filled bags from the food bank Thursday afternoons or Friday mornings. The bags will need to be delivered to the schools by 10 a.m. Friday.
Volunteers will then retrieve the previous week’s empty crates from the schools and return those to the food bank, located a 1313 S. Hill St.
Those interested in volunteering are asked to call Susan Gober at 325-655- 3231.
Food2Kids was started by the Junior League of San Angelo in 2007, as a group effort and was slowly turned over to the CVRFB, to date there are still members of the JLSA who deliver the bags to elementary schools. The bags are packed each week by students in the San Angelo I.S.D. who are part of a special needs job skills training program.
