OSWEGO – Blessings in a Backpack in Oswego continues its work feeding 250 children in Oswego’s five elementary schools over weekends and school breaks thanks in part to an $8,000 grant for 2018 from the Richard S. Shineman Foundation.
“Children suffer disproportionately from hunger because they are growing and developing much faster than adults. Nutritional deficiencies in childhood cannot be made up later,” BiB wrote in its proposal to the Shineman Foundation. “Our chapter looks beyond the benefits of filling hungry bellies today to benefits for the children of better health, improved school attendance and performance, enhanced emotional resilience, and stronger identification with the community.”
The Shineman Foundation is among the most generous of dozens of community organizations and citizens that make the Oswego program possible, according to BiB co-coordinators Melissa Russell and Beth Hallinan, both of the Church of the Resurrection.
The Oswego Episcopal church at West Fifth and Cayuga streets is the lead sponsor of Blessings in a Backpack in Oswego.
Key partners include Grace Lutheran Church and Faith United Church.
The Oswego and Fulton Blessings in a Backpack programs join together to “Blast Hunger” in their largest fundraiser of the year each March at the Elks Lodge.
Details about the fifth annual BiB Blast on March 10 will be announced soon.
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