Staff members at St. John’s Early Education and Preschool, in Waynesville, are have been busy packing easy and nutritional food items to be placed in a reusable bag. These bags are made available for all families who might have a need to help feed the children during the weekends.

The parent signs a confidential form requesting that these bags are sent home on Friday with the little ones and they are returned back on Monday. Staff members take the forms and fill the bags with small food items to assist the child during the weekend. Donations from local churches and private donors have allowed this project to exist from the St. John’s Center.

The lead teachers brainstormed on how to help the children in hard economic times when the idea of providing easy and small snacks foods was created.