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HUNGER: ‘Other people need help, too,’ 36,630
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food. This year, about 300 of their school’s 500 students get packs of food each Friday to tide them over the weekend. Church of the Resurrection in Leawood provides the packs of food to this school and five others each week. The church wanted to show kids that they also can give to people who need help. So this fall, the students who get backpacks at their school, including Shane and Stephanie, went to Church of the Resurrection and helped fill backpacks for students at a Johnson County school. Each kid brought at least one canned good to help another family. “You should have seen how proud they were when they went one by one and put their can on the shelf,” said Mary Tostenson, who co-founded the Backpacks for Hunger min-
Number of children in Jackson County who live in homes where there often isn’t enough food in the cupboards SOURCE: FEEDING AMERICA
Shane
Stephanie
istry with a friend five years ago. Both Stephanie and Shane took ravioli.
“It teaches me other people need help, too,” said Shane, who has received a weekly pack of food, either from
Church of the Resurrection or Harvesters, since he was in kindergarten. “I felt really, really good.” A few weeks ago, Stephanie went to the grocery store with her mom and dad. As they left, the fifth-grader saw a man and a little boy standing outside. “They looked hungry,” she said. Stephanie had her dad stop the cart. She pulled a box of snack cakes from one of their bags and handed it to the man. The two thanked the little girl. “The man told me … that God would thank me,” she said.
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