Blessings In A Backpack Research Paper

Growing up in the big city of Indianapolis, Indiana seeing multiple people starving and on the search for food. Homeless men and women lounging around at the end of the highway ramps, in front of corner stores, or creeping around in back alleys begging for money to feed their families. It’s devastating knowing we have millionaires that's filthy rich over the dumbest things. Dumb things like making a phone application such as a tic-tac-toe game, therefore, they shouldn’t be rich. We have people and children out here starving, wondering are they getting a next meal. In school I could always spot out the kids that didn’t own much. Shoes and clothes were dirty because they would wear the same stuff at least two days out of the five day school week. Hungry kids struggling in school academics because they cannot logically think as well as the ones that had a good hot breakfast. Well once upon a time I was one of those kids starving trying to eat. My stomach was so empty that it felt like it was touching my back. I could feel the hunger eating my insides away. I couldn’t wait to get to school so I could …show more content…
Blessings in a Backpack provides thousands backpacks full of good nutrient foods for students in school that need help getting food. The charity will provide the backpacks to hand out to the so they make sure they eat over the weekend when they are not in school. Allowing kids to eat over the weekend gives them energy to get up and do mental and physical activities. This charity is a great program for our area because the city of Benton Harbor is a community with tremendous amount of food insecure homes. We were was raised here and personally I would love to help the underprivileged