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The food bank’s fastest growing program, The Weekend Backpack Program™, provides severely at-risk children with a backpack filled with nutritious child-friendly foods for them to take home on the weekends, when they might otherwise go hungry.

The program is designed to allow students to get the assistance without drawing any attention to themselves by using backpacks, which look like any other student’s backpack.

More than 840 children in 28 elementary schools continue to receive healthy food over the weekends through this innovative, life-saving program.

Note: Ozarks Food Harvest prefers monetary donations for The Weekend Backpack Program™ because The Food Bank can purchase the specific items at a bulk, discounted rate. In the past, OFH asked for easy-open, single serving items, but now purchases those items.