Backpack Blessings: Helping Local Kids with Essential Supplies

 

The Backpack Blessings program provides nutritious, non-perishable food items to students each Friday to reduce weekend hunger and help prepare for Monday's learning in the classroom. Supported through a partnership with schools, volunteers, grants and individual donors, Backpack Blessings serves children throughout each school year.

 

Currently, the Backpack Blessings program serves students at the Walker County, Chickamauga City School locations listed below. Backpack Blessings also serves students attending the following YMCA Afterschool programs with weekend nutrition.

 

Walker County & Chickamauga City

Battlefield Elementary

Chattanooga Valley Elementary

Chattanooga Valley Middle School

Cherokee Ridge Elementary

Chickamauga Elementary 

Gilbert Elementary

Gordon Lee Middle School

LaFayette Middle School

Naomi Elementary

North LaFayette Elementary

Rossville Middle School

Saddle Ridge Elementary and Middle

YMCA Afterschool Programs

YMCA at Cherokee Ridge Elementary

YMCA at Rock Spring Elementary

YMCA at Rossville Elementary

YMCA at Saddle Ridge Elementary & Middle

YMCA at Tiger Creek

YMCA at West Side

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Volunteers meet to pack meal bags on the scheduled Tuesdays at 4:30 p.m. at Walker County Advancing Education Center. Volunteers are needed for monthly deliveries at 2 p.m. on specific dates. Enter the building at the lower parking lot closest to Highway 27. 

 

2023-24 Backpack Blessings Meal & Delivery Schedule

If you would like to volunteer, please contact the YMCA. We encourage all volunteers to RSVP ahead of time so we can prepare to greet you when you arrive.

 

To RSVP:
706-935-2226
hungerfree@ymcachattanooga.org

 

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