Micah's Backpack

Micah’s Backpack is a weekend meals program for students on free meal plans in Blacksburg Public Schools. The goal of the program is to provide weekend meals and snacks to these children and ensure that they have a steady and nutritious source of food over the weekends when school is not in session. Sadly, for some families, the meals provided by the schools are the only guaranteed source of nutrition that these students have. Providing meals for the weekends helps extend this guarantee.

Each backpack contains two breakfasts, two lunches, two dinners, as well as snacks. Participants receive items such as oatmeal, juice, tuna, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter, soup, apple sauce, fruit cups, ravioli, vegetables, milk, and other nutritious food. The food is sorted and packed on Thursday evenings by volunteers and then distributed on Friday afternoons to the participants. 

Through the generous support of our funders, we are proudly able to provide a bag of food to every student that needs one at all five Blacksburg Elementary schools, Blacksburg Middle School, Blacksburg High School, the Headstart Preschools, and Valley Interfaith Child Care Center; currently this means providing for over 300 children each week.