Researchers and educators have long known that a lack of sufficient food can permanently affect a child's mental as well as physical development. Hungry children simply don't learn as well as children who are well fed. According to Principals and Family Resource Center Coordinators in the Corbin Independent School System, at least 50% of local school children have little or no food from the time they leave school on Friday until they return the following Monday.

  Our goal is to involve community minded business', churches, civic organizations and individuals who would like to join us to improve the lives of children in need.

  For the 2010-2011 school year, a total of just over 18,883 bags of food were placed in the backpacks of students in the Corbin City School system and the surrounding areas. The Corbin Community Backpack Program, a nonprofit organization, was organized to ensure that no child in need in the Corbin area schools would go without weekend food.

Thank you for visiting our website and for your consideration of this project.
 

• Children in need are identified by each school's Family Resource Center Coordinator.
• Permission forms are signed by parent(s) and returned to the Family Resource Center.
• Participating children stop by the Family Resource Center each Friday before leaving school.
• A bag of food is then placed in the child's backpack.

Each bag contains items such as the following:

  Our goal is to involve community-minded businesses, churches, civic organizations and

 individuals who would like to join us to improve the lives of children in need.

Sherry Paul 

  Our summer program supplies food for all children in the Corbin Housing Projects.