My Nonprofit Reviews

Janice_D
Review for Blessings In A Backpack Inc, Louisville, KY, USA
I retired early to take care of my senior parents and they passed in 2012/2013. Not sure what to do with myself, I started applying for jobs and sadly at 60 years old no one wanted to hire me. I applied at over 1,000 jobs and had over 100 interviews.
This is after having a great career as a manager of a large utility company and they gave me made skills over the 30 years I worked for them.
Needing to put my brain back to work, I decided to find a nonprofit I could commit to and I found that in Blessings in a Backpack Rancho Cordova.
It was a HUGE eye opener for me to find that children go without food on the weekends, when I say this on the national news and I knew I had found my nonprofit.
Children that are on the free/reduced lunch program are not guaranteed food until they come back to school on Monday but not at the schools we have adopted.
We send home 6 meals and 2 snacks each and every Friday and have for 2 school years because children should worry about being kids and not where their next meal is coming from!