The Breakfast Club
A Family-to-Family/Teens-to-Teens Hunger Relief Program For
High Schoolers Eager To Make A Difference

You can become a community team leader without a big time commitment.
“Adopt” a soup kitchen or food pantry that serves and needs breakfast foods.
Organize and use the resources of three other high schools in your area.
The schools alternate — one week on, three weeks off.
In their designated week, the students from one school bring in cereal, pancake mix, syrup etc.
You’d help each school team leader make up and distribute flyers and organize some specially marked drop-off boxes in each school.
One or a couple of students from that school would be responsible for delivering that week’s breakfast collection to the food pantry.
Next week it would be one of the other school’s turn . . . and so on.
Each school would only be involved once every four weeks and there’d only be one delivery to the food pantry every four weeks for each school.

BUT . . . every week the food pantry would have breakfast food available for the hungry. You may be able to go to school without a decent breakfast (!), but imagine trying to find a job on an empty stomach or showing up at a physically demanding job without any food in your belly.

You really can make a difference and you can help make this a nationwide program — there are thousands of high schools across America who could participate in this project.

Naturally, you have to work this out with your high school community service or outreach teacher and The "Breakfast Club" requires that an adult supervise the program. Print this out, go discuss it your teacher. Let us know what you’re doing (see contact info below) and then:

Find a classmate or several to help you get things going.
Contact three other high schools (if you don’t know kids there, ask your community service teacher for a contact at the other schools) and enlist them in your project.
Make some simple colorful flyers to distribute in your school and create some large cardboard drop-off boxes for your classmates to drop off their cereal and pancake mixes, etc.
Email us here at Family-To-Family and let us know who’s involved, with contact names, and email addresses. Don’t forget to give us details on the food pantry or soup kitchen that you’re adopting. We’ll also need to know which school handles which week.
And don’t forget to plan for the holidays and summer vacation — your food pantry will still be serving breakfasts even though school is out.

With just a little time and a commitment to doing more than just talking about having a social conscience, we can make a big difference. I’m doing it at my high school, so if you’ve got any questions, contact me:

Olivia Carrano c/o Family-To-Family at: famtofamily@aol.com