In a race to see who is the most charitable of them all, local high school coaches are competing to see who can sponsor the most Backpack Buddies children.
From 5 to 8 p.m. today, the coaches will be stationed at each McDonald’s restaurant in town. They will be bussing tables and asking for donations to help provide food to needy children over the weekend.
Backpack Buddies is a program of America’s Second Harvest of Greater St. Joseph that works to solve the issue of childhood hunger in Northwest Missouri and Northeast Kansas. The program sends nutritious, kid-friendly, single-serving food to needy school children over each weekend of the year. To sponsor a child for an entire school year is $125 (just $3 per weekend).
The coaches are divided into teams by high school and are responsible for driving their fans to the McDonald’s at which they are stationed. A percentage of the proceeds from each McDonald’s restaurant also will be donated to each coaches’ teams’ fundraising efforts.
The team who sponsors the most Backpack Buddies children will win the Clean Sweep Coaches Challenge traveling trophy.
Each team will be responsible for a specific location:
Team Central: Stationed at the 601 N. Belt and 169 / I-29 McDonald’s locations
Team Benton: Stationed at 6108 Lake Ave. and 3414 S. Belt McDonald’s locations
Team Lafayette: Stationed at 3504 N. Belt and the new Riverside McDonald’s locations
Last year, Backpack Buddies served 500 St. Joseph students. For the 2008-2009 school year, Second Harvest hopes to reach a goal of 650 children as well as offering the program to every St. Joseph elementary school.
To find out how to help, contact Second Harvest at (816) 364-FOOD or go on line at www.stjoefoodbank.org.
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