{"id":12285,"date":"2021-03-16T00:46:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T00:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/indiana\/?p=12285"},"modified":"2021-08-10T00:47:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T00:47:18","slug":"jennings-county-school-corporation-and-helping-our-panthers-eat-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/indiana\/2021\/03\/16\/jennings-county-school-corporation-and-helping-our-panthers-eat-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennings County School Corporation and Helping Our Panthers Eat (HOPE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/indiana\/2021\/03\/16\/jennings-county-school-corporation-and-helping-our-panthers-eat-hope\/hope-volunteers-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12363\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12363 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/state.nokidhungry.org\/indiana\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2021\/03\/HOPE-Volunteers-2-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Their story in Jennings County began in July of 2020 when a group of community members was informed that Gleaners Food Bank would need to discontinue its backpack program, which sent meals home with students over the weekend, in the 2020-2021 school year. About 28,000 people live in Jennings County and, before the COVID-19 pandemic, about 13.5% of all individuals were food insecure. Among children, this increased to 19.5% of the county population.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning with Joy of Giving \u2013 the non-profit arm of Harmon Construction, Good Samaritan Food Pantry, and Purdue Extension \u2013 Jennings County, a group of organizations came together in the community to fill the gap. After being joined by staff from the Jennings County School Corporation, Decatur Mold \u2013 another local company, North Vernon First Baptist Church, Gleaners Food Bank, and Ascension St. Vincent Jennings Hospital, we developed a plan to create a weekend food program.<\/p>\n<p>The program is simple. Using local fundraising and a monthly credit from Gleaners Food Bank, shelf-stable food appropriate for children is purchased and stored at Good Samaritan Food Pantry. Volunteers from the community organize food into packs and deliver them to each elementary\/middle school. Two hundred packs are currently sent home with students each weekend.<\/p>\n<p>When the program needed startup funds, it turned to No Kid Hungry. Through a $25,000 grant, No Kid Hungry is supporting our community effort through its first semester. This gives us time to gather local financial pledges to make sure food insecure students in Jennings County do not go hungry. We call this all HOPE \u2013 Helping Our Panthers Eat. Susan Harding is the Jennings County School Corporation Food Service Director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Their story in Jennings County began in July of 2020 when a group of community members was informed that Gleaners Food Bank would need to discontinue its backpack program,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12285","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blog"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jennings County School Corporation and Helping Our Panthers Eat (HOPE) - INDIANA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nkh-state-nkh-state.pantheonsite.io\/indiana\/2021\/03\/16\/jennings-county-school-corporation-and-helping-our-panthers-eat-hope\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jennings County School Corporation and Helping Our Panthers Eat (HOPE) - INDIANA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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