This month I’m focusing on yet another local charity, one
that directly helps the children in my community as well as several others
nearby. Hand 2 Hand is an organization that collects and distributes food to
hungry children. This group is headquartered in the church I attend in
Hudsonville, MI, and I often see volunteers working as my quilt group meets on
Tuesday mornings.
Hand2Hand was the brainchild of Cheri Honderd. While
working with a literacy program in her local school, she saw that while
children in low income families get the benefit of free lunches while at
school, they go hungry on weekends. She decided to work with the school and the
church to establish a program to provide a backpack full of food for these
children to take home each Friday. Soon, other churches joined in to sponsor
students in their local schools, and now 111 churches help to feed over 6,000
children in 192 different schools in West Michigan. Food is collected through
donations from individuals as well as businesses.
Here’s a video about what Hand2Hand does.
You can read more about this awesome organization by going
to their website at https://h2hkids.org/. There is a place to
donate through the website, or you can simply leave a comment below. I will
personally donate $5 to Hand2Hand for each comment left on this post!
Be sure to visit the other blogs on this hop to support their chosen chairities:
Be sure to visit the other blogs on this hop to support their chosen chairities:
