Backpack Buddies is up and running for the 2024/2025 school year and we need your help!
For those who might not be familiar with the Backpack Buddies of Metro Atlanta (BPBMA), they are a no-profit organization that partners with local churches, synagogues, and community organizations to provide “backpacks” of food to be sent home from school each Friday with students who are dependent on their school’s free breakfast and lunch program to ensure that the children could have something to eat over the weekend. Since 2019, Kingswood has provided backpacks of food each week for students in need. You can learn more about BPBMA here: https://www.backpackbuddiesatl.org/.
Individual organizations (such as Kingswood) partner with BPBMA as a “Community Buddy.” BPBMA procures all of the food needed for distribution to its Community Buddies who pack and deliver the bags to partner schools each week. The BPBMA ‘warehouse’ is in the Williamsburg (aka Chick-Fil-A) Shopping Center on Jett Ferry Road.
Would you like to help with this ministry?
We are currently in need of volunteers to: (1) pack the bags each week; and (2) deliver the packed bags to Cary Reynolds Elementary School every Wednesday between 10:45 and 11:00 am.
You can sign up via the links below.
For packing:
Backpack Buddies 2022-2023: 2024-25 Backpack Buddies PACKING Volunteers (signupgenius.com)
For delivery:
Backpack Buddies 2022-2023: 2024-25 Backpack Buddies DELIVERY Volunteers (signupgenius.com)
This is an ideal volunteer opportunity for a family or small group. With 3-5 individuals working together, a week’s worth of packing can be accomplished in (well) under an hour. Picking up from Kingswood and delivering to the school takes about 30 minutes.
Would you be interested in becoming a regular volunteer with this ministry? If so, please sign up using the links above and/or contact Heather Nadler at heather@nadlerbiernath.com or at (404) 281-0444.