For some Cariboo students, a backpack filled with food and dropped off at school is how they eat on weekends.
Volunteers from the Rotary Club of Williams Lake gather weekly to fill backpacks — called Starfish Packs — with food and then deliver them to the five elementary schools in town (Cataline, Nesika, Marie Sharpe, Mountview and Chilcotin Road). The students in need take the backpacks home from school on Fridays and then bring them back to school empty on Mondays.
The Starfish pack program is up and running in Williams Lake elementary schools for the sixth consecutive year. A project of the Daybreak Rotary Club, the Starfish packs provide weekend meals for families in need.
“Please help us fill these empty backpacks.”
Starfish was featured in the Williams Lake Tribune, as Lori and the team at Williams Lake Starfish look for to their community for financial support to help feed more hungry children in their city.
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Williams Lake is excited to announce children will be fed over the weekends.
Take a look at Tribune’s online article here: