Every Friday morning, Nick Futrell, Kinsey White and a handful of volunteers fill 50 backpacks with Pop-Tarts, juice boxes, popcorn and other fun snacks for younger children. Their weekly effort is part of the Blessings in a Backpack program and club the two Lambert High sophomores started to help feed students in need from eight area elementary schools.“There are other programs in the county that focus on feeding the whole family, so they give them food and dinner stuff, but they don’t give them kid-friendly food,” Futrell said. “So these kids need that kind of thing.
Program delivers backpacks of blessings
Lambert students send snacks to kids