Researchers and educators have long known that a lack of sufficient food can permanently affect a child's mental as well as physical development. Hungry children simply don't learn as well as children who are well fed. According to Principals and Family Resource Center Coordinators in the Corbin Independent School System, at least 50% of local school children participate in the free and reduced breakfast/lunch program. Many of these children have little or no food from the time they leave school on Friday until they return the following Monday.

  Our goal is to involve community minded business', churches, civic organizations and individuals who would like to join us to improve the lives of children in need.

  For the 2014-2015 school year, a total of 19,385 bags of food were placed in the backpacks of students Corbin Independent, Knox County and Whitley County schools. The Corbin Community Backpack Program, a nonprofit organization, was organized to ensure that no child in need in the Corbin area schools would go without weekend food.

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