SCHOOL TOOLS

Our School Tools program provides school supplies to 32 elementary schools in Southeast Texas that have a large percentage of low-income students.  Our free store allows teachers at those schools to access the supplies once a month during the school year.  The teachers in turn distribute the supplies to the children whose families cannot provide them.  This program helps keep low-income children motivated in the learning environment and excited about classroom activities.  Not having adequate supplies can embarrass children and set them on a course of a dislike of school.  Our goal is to ensure these children have the tools they need to succeed early in the educational process.

TEXAS SECOND CHANCE

BackPack Program

The Southeast Texas Food Bank BackPack Program provides sacks of kid-friendly, healthy snack food to some of the neediest children in the rural areas of Southeast Texas.  We are located in three counties – Sabine, Tyler, and Newton – and deliver to ten schools to serve over 300 children.  The supplemental food that these children receive each week may help offset or reverse some of the developmental delays caused by even mild malnutrition that is associated with poverty.