Food Bank of Wyoming Receives Grant to Expand Food for Kids Program

Food Bank of Wyoming announced they recently received a $50,000 Promising Practices grant from Save the Children U.S. to support their Totes of Hope Program. The Save the Children Promising Practices grant will support Food Bank of Wyoming’s efforts to alleviate hunger for children across the state. Totes of Hope is a summer and afterschool program that provides fresh and nutritious food to children who rely on school meals throughout the week to evade hunger. The program helps fill the gap after school, on the weekends, and in the summer where access to meals can be more difficult, especially for children living in Wyoming’s most rural areas.

According to Food Bank of Wyoming, the grant will help them to continue to serve and grow the program to more rural communities in an effort to ensure all children have nutritious meals when not in school. Food Bank of Wyoming Executive Director Rachel Bailey said the $50,000 Promising Practices grant will be used specifically to raise awareness of the Tots of Hope program, especially in Wyoming’s rural counties where access to food and meals presents a larger challenge. Food Bank of Wyoming is the largest hunger-relief organization in Wyoming and provides food and essentials directly to people facing hunger and through more than 160 Hunger Relief Partners throughout the state.