The Sharing Center of Central Brevard is relaunching the Weekend Family Bag Pack Program with a new name: Weekend Meals Program.
It’s a simpler name, but one that better reflects the story and purpose of the program.
During the last school year, The Sharing Center supported 152 families across 10 Title I schools, by distributing 5,776 weekend meal kits. Each package contains enough food to provide breakfast, lunch and dinner for four people across the weekend.
Behind every one of those packages is a family.
A child may be the reason we first learn that a household needs a little extra help, but hunger rarely affects just one person in a home. There may be brothers and sisters, a parent stretching groceries until payday, or a family simply trying to make what they have last until Monday.
That is why our program has always provided food for the whole family.
As the program has grown, we realized its name needed to better reflect that. Weekend Meals Program more clearly describes what The Sharing Center provides and gives the program its own identity among the different types of food assistance reaching families through our local schools.
How does it work?
The program is completely confidential. School counselors see the needs of their students and families firsthand and identify households that could benefit from additional weekend food.
Each week during the school year, The Sharing Center prepares the Weekend Meals packages and delivers them directly to participating schools, allowing the food to reach families discreetly and with dignity.
And the need continues to grow.
We regularly hear from school counselors asking a simple question: “Do you have room for one more family?”
As resources allow, we want our answer to be yes.
Each Weekend Meals package costs approximately $15 and provides food for a family of four for the weekend.
A recurring gift of $60 can help keep food on the table for a family week after week.
Help us say yes to the next family who needs us.
Donate Today at: CENTRAL BREVARD SHARING CENTER INC – Weekend Meals Program