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Causes: Children & Youth, Youth Development Programs
Mission: The happy program is a weekly, take-home food program for children in need of food when school meals are not available. Nonperishable foods are sent home in backpacks with children who have little or no food on the weekends.
Target demographics: at risk children with food insecurity
Direct beneficiaries per year: 350 children with food on a weekly basis.
Geographic areas served: Union County Kentucky
Programs: The UC Happy Pack program provides bags of food for school age children on the weekend to supplement their food needs. In 2020, we provided over 11,000 bags of food to the children of Union County.