Yesterday volunteers from the community packaged and donated 50,000 meals to the Ozanam Center in Brownsville Texas.
The volunteers gathered at the gym of the First Baptist Church in Brownsville to package the meals. Feeding the Children Everywhere is a national organization active in providing free food to hungry children.
Their website states that "Children are experiencing lifelong consequences because of something outside of their control, access to something as simple as a healthy breakfast.
"This reduces their academic achievement and dims their future success. Research shows that children without a healthy breakfast struggle with lower test scores and increased behavioral problems. That struggle leads to lower graduation rates and the disparity creates a generational cycle of poverty."
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The Ozanam Center is a shelter that houses homeless people and recent immigrants.
According to the national organization, FCE’s line of Breakfast Bites is all-natural and can be served hot or cold, recommended with any popular type of milk. The initial recipe, Apple Pie Oats, is made with puffed brown rice, Scottish oats, real apple and nutmeg. It’s packed with the nutrition kids need to start their day. There’s no sugar added, and the meal also passes the biggest test – it’s delicious!
We applaud the volunteers who donated their time and effort to this worthy cause.