Please join the Food Bank and Raymond Central Educational Foundation Backpack Program to feed hungry children and their families.

Raymond Central will be starting a backpack program in conjunction with the Food Bank for the 2011-2012 school year. Backpacks are sent home each Friday and are filled with food to feed a family during the weekend.

The food used for the Food Bank Backpack Program consists of purchased food to ensure a consistent supply of food for each backpack. Various menus include peanut butter and jelly, concentrated fruit juice, boxes of cereal, macaroni and cheese, canned fruits and vegetables along with bread and egg vouchers. Vouchers for milk may also be issued.

Here’s how you can help:

v Participate in upcoming fundraising events.

v Provide financial support.

v Sponsor a student for a week, a semester, a year or longer.

o   The cost to supply one child with a backpack for one school year is $200

o   To sponsor a child for a semester is $100

o   To sponsor a child for a month is $25

o   The cost to sponsor one child for a week is $5.88

Donations may be given to the Raymond Central Educational Foundation Backpack Program.  Please write backpack program in the memo.