WUKY, God’s Pantry partnering to fight child hunger
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 9, 2024) — WUKY-FM is once again partnering with God’s Pantry Food Bank to fill take-home backpacks for food insecure children in Central Kentucky during the holiday season.
For every donation made to WUKY until Dec. 31, local sponsors will fill three and a half backpacks of food for children in need through God’s Pantry Food Bank’s backpack program. Sponsors include: Stewart Perry of State Farm Insurance, Anita Britton of Britton Johnson Law, Back Construction, Salomon and Company and UK Federal Credit Union.
God’s Pantry Food Bank distributed 53,477 backpacks in 2024 and expects to distribute around 61,000 in the upcoming year. Thirty-one schools in Fayette, Jessamine and Floyd counties are currently participating in the program. Each bag contains seven to 10 kid-friendly items of food such as a protein-rich main dish, shelf-stable milk, fruit cups, granola bars and other items chosen by a registered dietitian.
This program demonstrates how one special gift benefits two very deserving nonprofit organizations. The partnership began in 2016 when WUKY joined God's Pantry Food Bank and Stewart Perry of State Farm to provide food insecure children with backpacks of food. Those backpacks were created to help students have food available at home when school meals are unavailable. It was so successful, that more businesses joined over the years, allowing for more backpacks to be filled and more children to be fed. This partnership has helped provide around 18,000 backpacks over the past nine years to fight childhood hunger in Central Kentucky.
Donations can be made at: https://donate.nprstations.org/wuky/support-wuky-now or by calling 859-257-WUKY (9859).
For more information visit www.wuky.org or contact at 859-257-3272 or robert.hansel@uky.edu.
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