Our Mission:
The mission of Weekend Backpacks is to provide food to
vulnerable, food-insecure Baltimore City youth to facilitate academic success
and improve their lives both physically and emotionally.
Our Approach:
All Baltimore City schoolchildren are
provided breakfast and lunch at school each day. However, many of the students
suffer from food insecurity, lacking sufficient funds to provide them with food
when school is not in session.
We provide child-friendly, nutritious food
directly to children in need over the weekends.
We believe that a child does not live in
isolation; therefore, each backpack contains enough food to feed three to four
people for the weekend.
All food is packaged in four set menus,
including milk, proteins, vegetables, cereal and fruit. The amount of food in
the bags increases weekly throughout the month to compensate for the fact that
a family’s funds decrease as the month progresses.
Fresh fruit is included in every backpack of
food.
Additional food is added when there is a three- or four-day
weekend. These extended weekends can mean that the students would have little
or no access to food for more than 100 hours.
The
Schools We Serve
As of May 2022
- Abbottston
Elementary School
- Arlington
Elementary/Middle School
- Armistead
Gardens Elementary/Middle School
- Arundel
Elementary School
- Ashburton
Elementary/Middle School
- Barclay
Elementary/Middle School
- Calvin
Rodwell Elementary/Middle School
- Career
Academy
- Cecil
Elementary School
- Cecil-Kirk
Recreation Center
- Charm
City Virtual
- Collington
Square Elementary/Middle School
- Creative
City Elementary School
- Cross
Country Elementary/Middle School
- Dorothy
Height Elementary School
- Edgewood
Elementary School
- Fallstaff
Elementary/Middle School
- Furley
Elementary School
- Gwynns
Falls Elementary School
- Govans
Elementary School
- Hazelwood
Elementary/Middle School
- Hilton
Elementary School
- John
Ruhrah Elementary/Middle School
- Joseph
C. Briscoe Academy
- Lakeland
Elementary/Middle School
- Liberty
Elementary School
- Lois
T. Murray School
- Margaret
Brent Elementary/Middle School
- Mary
E. Rodman Elementary School
- Mount
Royal Elementary/Middle School
- New
Song Academy
- Patterson
High School
- Pimlico
Elementary/Middle School
- Rosemont
Elementary/Middle School
- Sandtown-Winchester
Achievement Academy
- Southwest
Baltimore Charter School
- Steuart
Hill Academy
- Tench
Tilghman Elementary/Middle School
- The
Historic Cherry Hill Academy
- Thomas
Jefferson Elementary/Middle School
- Vanguard
Collegiate Middle School
- William
S. Baer School
- Windsor
Hills Elementary/Middle School
- Winfield
Elementary
- Yorkwood
Elementary
- Youth
Opportunity School
