BGR partner the Sahuarita Food Bank and Community Resource Center serves the low-income population of southeastern Pima County, Arizona, a mostly rural area. This project will address poverty in Summit, Arizona, a small community with a household poverty rate of 32 percent, the lowest income rural community in Arizona, where many live without electricity or water and on unmaintained dirt roads. Food insecurity here is widespread; at the local elementary school, 98 percent of children qualify for the federal Free and Reduced-Price Lunch program.

This project focuses on 40 very low-income families with children aged up to 5 years old, who are enrolled in the pre-school Head Start program. During the week the children receive daytime food through the federal Head Start program, but they need additional nutrition on weekends. The program will deliver weekend nutrition backpacks containing age-appropriate items for breakfasts, lunches, and snacks. Additionally, the project will provide food boxes to ten families not already receiving food at the school’s food pantry.

BGR partner the Sahuarita Food Bank and Community Resource Center serves the low-income population of southeastern Pima County, Arizona, a mostly rural area. This project will address poverty in Summit, Arizona, a small community with a household poverty rate of 32 percent, the lowest income rural community in Arizona, where many live without electricity or water and on unmaintained dirt roads. Food insecurity here is widespread; at the local elementary school, 98 percent of children qualify for the federal Free and Reduced-Price Lunch program.

This project focuses on 40 very low-income families with children aged up to 5 years old, who are enrolled in the pre-school Head Start program. During the week the children receive daytime food through the federal Head Start program, but they need additional nutrition on weekends. The program will deliver weekend nutrition backpacks containing age-appropriate items for breakfasts, lunches, and snacks. Additionally, the project will provide food boxes to ten families not already receiving food at the school’s food pantry.