Our Children's Feeding Programs, including our Backpack Program, works to fight hunger year-round in Pierce County. The Backpack Program gives out food for the weekends every week to over 1,100 students at-risk of going hungry over the weekend. Food packing volunteers help with the initial stages of putting the backpacks together for distribution. We are open for volunteering Monday-Wednesday starting everyday at 10:00AM. We ask that all volunteers be over the age of 16 to come unsupervised, but all ages under 16 are welcome to volunteer with direct supervision by a parent or guardian. Volunteer groups are allowed, but we ask that groups be a maximum of 10 people. A short training/orientation will happen before volunteering. We ask that individuals and groups volunteer with us a minimum of 1.5 hours, so they have time to be oriented, get to know what we do, and enough time to complete a project or help with a food line shift.
