Sodexo Foundation donates to BackPack Program

The Education Foundation of Oconee County was selected to receive a $1,000 grant from the Sodexo Foundation, earmarked to support the BackPack Program. Across the United States, one in five children, are at risk of hunger.  The Sodexo Foundation works to ensure that every child in the United States, especially those most at-risk, grows up with dependable access to enough nutritious food to enable them to lead a healthy, productive life.  The BackPack program began three years ago within the school district to provide backpacks with child-friendly food for students to take home over the weekends, when they do not have access to free and reduced breakfasts and lunches at school, or evening meals. The BackPack Program is a way to help these students and their families until students return to school on Monday. Over 414 students across the district are being served this year through the program. The cost to feed one child is $160.  Donations to the BackPack Program may be sent to the Education Foundation of Oconee Country, PO Box 608, WestUnion, SC  29696.  Your donations are 100% tax-deductible.