In a few short weeks school we be starting as will the Idaho food bank backpack program. Each Friday, backpacks containing a weekend’s worth of food are handed out to schoolchildren at risk of going without adequate nutrition.
177 new backpacks donated by GateCity Rotory
They will be filled and handed out to children in need.
Last spring voluteers packed hundreds of plastic sacks containing a weekends worth of food. They were placed in large totes and stored for the summer.
Totes full of sacks for the backpacks
Unfortunaely, before the sacks can be placed in backpacks and handed out to children, all the totes (containing thousands of sacks) must be gone through. Some of the food has spoiled over the summer. That is what we worked on last week...emptying the totes and throwing out the sacks with spoiled food. We went thru four totes (over 500 sacks) and found about a dozen sacks of bad food. That was the good news!
"Good" sacks
The bad news is that there was any spoiled food at all.
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