Daybreak Rotary Club in Williams Lake recently received a financial boost from the Lakers Car Club for the Starfish Program to the tune of $5,000.
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.