Backpack Meals for Displaced Students

Verner Elementary’s PTA is putting together backpack meals for students that have been displaced due to the April 27 storms. These students are living with their families in shelters, cars, and tents, as examples. Verner’s PTA has volunteered to organize these meals for up to 700 students through the end of the school year (12 more days). Many local organizations are helping provide food and labor, but you can also help by…

• ORGANIZING DONATIONS/PREPARING BAGS: Volunteers are needed Mon-Fri in the Verner Elementary gym 8:00-10:00 to organize donations and supervise students preparing the bags.
• DELIVERING MEALS: Volunteers are needed Mon-Fri to pick up meals from Verner and deliver to these schools: Southview Middle, MLK Elementary, Westlawn Middle, Stillman Heights Education Center and Skyland Elementary. Meals need to arrive at schools by 1:00. MLK and Skyland are large deliveries and two people are suggested for those routes.
• FOOD DONATIONS: Individual-size, easy-open containers, nothing that needs refrigeration. Our current needs list is vienna sausage; beans & weenies; spaghettios, ravioli, mac & cheese - any precooked prepackaged meal (the children eat them cold but love them!); milk (the type that does not need refrigeration until opened like Nesquick at Sam’s Club); fruit cups or canned fruit; plastic forks or spoons.

Deliveries and volunteers should come to the Verner Elementary School gym.


See the original post from Rebuild Tuscaloosa here