By: Staci Miller Agriculture Education Teacher
The Paulding FFA has teamed up with the Children’s Hunger Alliance and various local donors including the Paulding Area Foundation, the Paulding VFW, and the Black Swamp Arbor, to create an evening meal program for students in the Paulding Exempted Village School District who may be in need. The program will start on February 3rd and continue once a week for the remainder of the school year. The meals will always be distributed on Wednesday unless there is a cancellation then it will be Thursday. The program will be called Food for All (FFA) Meals as it was developed by the Paulding FFA program. The members of the Paulding FFA Chapter are always looking for new ways to help fill needs in our community and school district. Since the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been many challenges for students and their families in our school district. This meal program will be available to students who may be facing food insecurity and will help fill their needs to grow and achieve their goals during the school day. This program will feature 5 days worth of shelf-stable meals that can be used for the student’s evening meals. The meals will follow the dietary guidelines featuring a milk, meat or meat alternatives, vegetable, fruit and a grain. The meals will be distributed in all school buildings on Wednesdays at the end of the day. The program is open to any student enrolled at Paulding Exempted Village Schools grades PK-12.
To sign up for the FFA meal program, please go to the Home Page of the school (www.pauldingschools.org) and look in the quick links for ‘(FFA) Food For All Meal Program’. Please fill out ONE google form for EACH student that you want to enroll in the FFA Meal program. You will only need to register your student(s) ONCE to receive meals for the remainder of the school year. Parents can register their students starting January 24th until January 31st for the meals to be distributed during the month of February. The form will open back up on the 20th of each month and remain open until the last day of the month to add additional students.
If you have any questions on how to sign up your student or any general questions, please contact Mrs.Staci Miller at s_miller@pauldingschools.org or at 419-399-4656 Ext. 1170. The Paulding FFA is very thankful to all our donors and sponsors of this program. We continue to live by the FFA motto: Living to Serve Others in our Community.
