Tag: schools
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FAKH announces new school food pantry partnership to feed local kids
Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland (FAKH) has announced partnerships with Allen, Caldwell, Logan, Russell and Washington County School Districts, as well as Caverna Independent School District to support a new School Pantry Pilot Program within these school systems. The program seeks to improve food security among students and their families by providing perishable and non-perishable food…
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REALTOR® Association of Southern Kentucky & FAKH distribute more than 664,884 servings to southern Kentucky families.
REALTOR® Association of Southern Kentucky (RASK) and Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland (FAKH), teamed up to distribute a total of 664,884 servings of food to southern Kentucky families. The food was delivered to 10 school districts in April, including Warren County, Bowling Green Independent, Allen County, Barren County, Caverna Independent, Butler County, Edmonson County, Simpson County,…
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FAKH BackPack program expands to help Kentucky kids facing hunger
n the coming weeks, school will begin across Kentucky’s Heartland. The free school meals students depend on are no longer available, unless their family qualifies through a lengthy application process which hinges on their income. If a family is above the income requirements, then they will have to pay full or reduced price for school…
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Without school meals for all, Kentucky children face hunger this summer.
Over the next three months, thousands of children in Kentucky will spend their Summer worried, irritated, and sad all because of one thing – hunger. School administrators, like Leah Feagin, are anxious for the children that depend on school meals year-round. The following Op-Ed, written by Feagin, demonstrates the urgency with which we must address…
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Fall 2017 “Give a Day for Hunger” Event
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The Truth About Education and Hunger
In a society that often relies on social media and/or the internet for their daily news, it’s easy to see how misconceptions can quickly become “truth”. As a hunger relief organization, we see instances of this all the time as it pertains to the more than 174,000 people we serve each year. One of these…
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Local High School Students Receive $10,000 Grant to Benefit FAKH
Students in the Service Club at Elizabethtown High School recently won both a $10,000 grant to benefit FAKH as well as a $5,000 technology grant for their school. Earlier this year, the club’s team, “We Scare Hunger”, submitted an application for the Lead2Feed: Student Leadership Program. Lead2Feed is an innovative program aimed at nurturing a new…
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May Isn’t Always About Celebrating
The month of May brings with it a lot of things to celebrate here in Kentucky: the arrival of spring, the Kentucky Derby, and of course the end of the school year. In addition, many will soon be celebrating a graduation. From kindergarteners to college students, thousands of people all across our region will be…
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Help Fight Child Hunger One Bag at a Time
Due to the lack of resources many of their families face, these children often rely on the meals they are able to get at school for most of their nutritional needs.Unfortunately, when these meals aren’t available their families struggle to provide the food necessary for an active, healthy life. Through this program, children who are…
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“Brush Away Hunger and Tooth Decay” Drive Collects over 8,000 Toothbrushes for BackPack Program
2016 – Feeding America, Kentucky’s Heartland (FAKH) and Lincoln Trail District Health Department (LTDHD) partnered for a toothbrush drive aimed at improving the dental hygiene of children participating in the BackPack Program. “An assessment of the state’s dental health found that half of Kentucky’s children had decay in their primary teeth, more than twice the…
