The Lumby Food Bank in Cooperation with The Lumby Thrift Store will be working together to implement a hunger relief summer program to support the hunger needs of our local children during the summer months when school ends and all of the school based nutrition programs are stopped.

Over the past few months we have touched base with the schools in our immediate community, as well as Whitevalley Community Resource Centre in order to get a rough idea of how many children they feel could possibly use additional nutrition support during the summer months.

This was done as we applied for a Food Banks Canada initiative called the “After the Bell” program which allowed several food banks across Canada 8 weeks of summer packages filled with kid friendly nutritious snacks along with extra funding to help supply healthy produce in each pack.

Although Lumby was not selected as one of the 150 out of 500 applications received, we’ve come to the conclusion that’s not going to stop us from feeding those kids that need our help this summer.

Due to the overwhelming number of kids that came through to us as potential candidates, it was clear to us that regardless of whether we were accepted or not, there are children and families in our community that needs our extra help one way or another, the challenge was on- we needed to take care of our future leaders!