Helping Hungry Kids Right Now

REDWOOD K-2 FREE FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SNACK PROGRAM

 The Children's Fund is funding  Free  Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Snacks for over 400 little kindergarten, first and second grade students at Redwood Elementary School. The children eagerly sample slices of apples, sections of oranges, broccoli trees, bananas, tangerines, grapes, cucumbers, carrots, kiwi and a wide range of colorful and tasty produce.  Young children will make healthy  food choices for life when they have a chance to taste new and wonderful flavors. 

 Our community partner Mendocino Coast Produce is providing Redwood students produce at their cost  and  selecting produce for seasonality and value. The Cummings Foundation is providing the first year's funding so we could get started. Harvest Market has offered to collect money at their registers to help so we can keep the program going.  When you shop at Harvest every donation you make goes to  our nutritious fruits and vegetables and healthy snacks initiatives  for low income kids. Your donation of  $25  ($2.50 a month) provides free fruits and vegetable snacks  for a kindergartener every day of the school year. 

 SOS SNACKS

It breaks our heart that some children go home to hunger. We have provided an SOS  grant to the schools to fund nutritional snacks that can be put in a child's hand - yogurt, string cheese, granola bars, a bag of fruit and cheese, a muffin. We have a pilot program going and with your support hope to expand it to all coastal school districts. When you donate to us at Harvest Market (CODE # 975)  or  right here  through PayPal, you make sure  coastal children do not go hungry.