![]() The program, which started in 2012, utilizes four refurbished school buses and takes lunches every weekday to children in poor neighborhoods and remote areas of the region. Thanks to our donors and supporters, our food bank is able to provide the “Lunch Express” mobile summer food delivery program. Unable to make it to a traditional site? The Lunch Express comes to you! ![]() But for children who do not attend these programs, hunger during the summer may be something they face every day. and other places where children in need of food assistance may gather. The food bank has operated a summer food program for our eight-county region since 2009 at sites like Boys & Girls Club, Girls Inc. Free and reduced school breakfasts and lunches help ensure these children don’t go hungry during the school year, but when school is out for the summer what can they do? Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee Summer Food Program is here to help. One in four children in rural Northeast Tennessee lives at or below the poverty level. I am as excited and thankful for this program as the kids are each summer. This is my second summer volunteering to ride the Lunch Express and feed children through the summer feeding program. My time spent learning about hunger in my community inspired me to become an advocate on hunger issues and to work with people in Northeast Tennessee and Feeding America-member Second Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Tennessee to come up with creative ways to bridge our hunger gaps. One thing that stuck with me the most was children coming to those places hungry because they did not have enough food at home. I spent a good deal of time during high school and college working in the afterschool programs and classrooms. Heidi will bring you a lunch,” Wayne, our fearless bus driver, repeated as the line of kids filed past him for a squirt of hand sanitizer before taking a seat. We had several parents and fifteen young, eager faces jumping around, ready to get on the Lunch Express for an early lunch. “Oh look, there is a crowd already waiting for us, “I said as we pulled into our first stop of this summer on the Lunch Express. Thank you to 88.3 WCQR radio for holding Project Thanksgiving for eight years! Please make your donation by November 12 so the food can be distributed in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. Will you please consider supporting Project Thanksgiving? Your donation of $25 provides a Thanksgiving meal box with all the ingredients for a traditional Thanksgiving meal for a family of four. We thank everyone for supporting this effort but more sponsors are need to meet the need. During week one of the campaign 600 boxes were sponsored. This is the eighth year of the campaign which strives to provide a Thanksgiving meal box for 6,000 people in need of food assistance for Thanksgiving in Northeast Tennessee. Project Thanksgiving is a special project of Christian Radio 88.3 WCQR. My husband loves turkey and appreciated the help received, as does my entire family. The Thanksgiving box we received last year GREATLY HELPED us during a very tight time, to have a great & wonderful Thanksgiving. ![]() During the holiday period of Thanksgiving and Christmas work slows down for my husband. ![]() “We are a small family from Mohawk, Tennessee. Here’s what one family said about the help they received last year, You can also sponsor a family for Project Thanksgiving. You can make a general contribution on our website that assures for every $1 donated the food bank provides more than $7 worth of food for someone in need. Food donations are being accepted at the many food drive locations listed in this email. Your donations to Second Harvest mean that families in need have somewhere to turn for food assistance. Thanksgiving will soon be here and Second Harvest needs your help to ensure that no one goes hungry. ![]()
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