Food for Kids Back-to-School (8-7-20)

Food for Kids Back-to-School (8-7-20)

Only weeks away from starting school -- either online or in- person... but the pandemic has added an extra challenge for families to afford back-to- school costs this year, so a local organization is stepping in to help.

Kq2's kilee thomas stopped at the "food for kids" "back-to-school drive-thru": <<"it's really nice to come out here and help people."

"that's what we do on this corner.

We lift jesus' name up, we have fun and we kids."

Food for kids is known in the community midtown lunches to 150 kids each the summer when kids are out of school but not summer..."due to covid-19, wellspring church took over for us this summer.

So, since the summer was over for the kids, we decided to lift their spirits back up."

So, instead..they held a back-to-school drive thru.

"what we're doing is bringing the community together for underwear, kids's masks and lunches."

All items were donated by the community help kids in need prepare for school and remind them they aren't alone"the neighborhood is still thinking about them."

"the parents have lost their jobs.the children have been depressed and inside.

We have developed relationships with them and we wanted to let them know that we still love them, we're still interested in them and we're thinking about them.

So, in order to do that, we had to bring something back to the community to keep our babies loved and surrounded with fun and joy."

Kids have been through a lot this year every aspect of their lives mom said, 'okay, you're not going online, you're going to school,' and it was a big argument cause i wanted to be online and not bring it back to my grandmother."

Suraiya is going into third grade online..while the decision was tough on her family it feels good to be out helping others "especially cause some people are from the flood that happened a couple weeks ago, so i'm just glad to be out here helping everybody."

The gilberts say preparing the kids for this new challenge has been rewarding been the best part.

"it has been overwhelming, it has been fulfilling and it lifted our spirits because we missed them."

Reporting in st joseph kilee thomas kq2 news.>> the back-to- school drive-thru began at 10 o'clock this morning, and continued until all donated items were given away.

The kansas