The Carbon Caring for Kids organization is preparing for the upcoming holidays and they are looking for food donations to make food kits for students in need. Coordinator, Marcie Loveless stopped by Castle Country Radio to share all the details of what items will be needed.

“Because the days are so long and the holidays are so long, we approach it differently. Normal weekends we just have a group come and they pack the kits and we have two days worth of food in the kits and it’s in out the door. But with this one being five to Christmas break being two weeks, there’s a lot more food in each kit. So we have a signup sheet that we will put on the Facebook page of Carbon Caring for Kids where people will sign up to sponsor a child,” stated Loveless. This makes it so that every child in need is accounted for and taken care of for the long holiday breaks.

“On the five-day weekend its usually $25.00 per kit. The two-week one we can’t put two weeks’ worth of food in a bag because it gets to be too much, too big. So we try and put in as much as we can. But it’s usually $25.00 – $30.00 per kit and we just ask the community to sign up and sponsor a child for this area, this is the food that they will receive over that vacation,” said Loveless. The person who wishes to sponsor a child will put the food kit together at their home and drop off the completed kit at Loveless’s residence so that it can be distributed.

There are certain items that go into the food kits that can easily be prepared by children. “In each of the kits there are microwavable Chef Boyardee’s for the elementary kids, there’s fruit cups, GO-GO Squeeze Its, snacks, tuna fish a cracker boxes, cereal, and Gossner Milk – we provide the Gossner Milk from up in Logan so that they have cereal and milk,” said Loveless. The older kids in secondary schools get more canned food items, ramen noodles, and cup of noodles.

If you would like to learn more about Carbon Caring for Kids visit their Facebook page. “We post on there just updates of different things that we are doing. So anytime that we have need of food we put on there. There’s always the ability for you to donate money. We have a Venmo account, Carbon Caring for Kids that you can donate money through. Basically, all of our needs that we put on that Facebook page has been and will be put on there,” explained Loveless.