Thank you for feeding hungry kids
September was Hunger Action Month, and did the friends of ConVal End 68 Hours of Hunger take action.
Liz and Bill Littles of Steele’s in Peterborough delivered 220 reusable water bottles (including cash donations) that they collected in August. Aesop’s Tables in Peterborough held a successful food drive, as did the Mansfield Public Library in Temple. Kids pitched in, donating funds raised at the Francestown Children’s Market. And the effort spilled over into October, capped off by the Stuff an Ambulance food drive by Peterborough Fire and Rescue in front of Shaw’s. What a community effort.
All this allows us to continue our mission of feeding food-insecure children in the ConVal School District — with weekend grocery bags sent home from school, snacks and one-meal bags delivered to local libraries and social-service agencies, and more. We feed hungry kids, and they come to school ready to learn.
To all who joined in this month-long effort: You are awesome! It takes more than a village to support this ongoing work. It takes nine villages — the nine towns of the ConVal district— coming together. Thanks so much for your support of this important program.