Stop Hunger Awareness Prevention and Education

S.H.A.P.E. mission in food, health, & well-being

The mission of S.H.A.P.E mission is to ensure that all children can grow and thrive by having love, good home life, nutritious food, physical activity to help fight childhood obesity, interaction and access to character building programs.

NORMAL Inc. Power Pack Program.

NORMAL Inc in partnership with Life House West Church, Power Pack Back Pack Program implemented in 2011 started with just 10 backpacks a week being distributed to schools and has now grown to distribution of over a 150 backpacks a week in several different schools. These Backpacks have meal supplements and nutritious snacks to help children that are in most dangers of going hungry.

The national average spent per year per student is $300.00, this puts our program and administrative budget at approximately $70,000 thousand dollars year.

About 55 million school age youth are enrolled in our schools nation wide and over 18% are youth who will go home on the weekend to a home with no food or not enough food. The Power Pack Program provides Backpacks to the school age child and a Care Bag to help families that need extra help.

Stopping hunger is the objective of the program, but the benefits also include:

* Better School Attendance

* Improved School Grades

* Improved Test Scores

* Better Focus and Participation

Each Friday of the school year backpacks are filled with food and sent home with children identified by the school social worker or guidance office as a child in need and a parent meeting is held to obtain consent from the parent. On Mondays the backpacks are returned to the school and the staff from Life House and NORMAL then prepare the backpacks for the distribution on Friday.

 

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