A teacher recently asked children to write about what they would do if they had $100. One child wrote:  “If I had $100, I would give it to my mother to buy food for us.”

End 68 Hours of Hunger

is a private, not-for-profit, effort to confront the approximately 68 hours of hunger that some school children experience between the free lunch they receive in school on Friday afternoon and the free breakfast they receive in school on Monday morning.

How does the program help?

This program, established in New Hampshire in 2011, puts nourishing food in the hands of elementary school children to carry them through the weekend. Volunteers purchase the food, pack the back packs and deliver them to the offices of the selected elementary schools. From there, a school employee delivers the back packs to the classrooms of the individual participating students. The students take the back packs home on Friday afternoon and return them on Monday morning. Volunteers then pick up the back packs from the office, refill them, and the cycle starts again, every week.

Our backpacks cost $10 each and provide two breakfasts, two lunches and three dinners for a child, with some left over to share!

The program is completely volunteer.

100% of the donated funds received purchases food for these children.  All efforts are voluntary!  No one gets paid!

Storing the Food

We’re blessed to have moved from a trailer to an actual storage facility making it so much easier to pack the backpacks. It’s amazing what a little space (AND ELECTRICITY!) can do! We are incredibly grateful to Royalty Automotive. However, it’s a temporary loan of a vacant space. If you know of 300-600 feet of donated space in Dover/Somersworth, let us know!