CRESTVIEW — Thirty underprivileged Crestview High School students will have food for the weekend following the school’s Key Club receipt of a $2,000 Kiwanis International Youth Opportunity Grant.
The money was further matched by a $2,757.50 contribution from the Bay Area Food bank.
The students, whom Exceptional Student Education teachers will select, are generally recipients of low-cost or no-cost weekday lunches and, sometimes, breakfasts, at the school, club faculty adviser Juanita Payne-Galbreath said.
Key Club members chose the Backpack Food Program as a community service project that would have a direct impact on fellow students, Payne-Galbreath said.
The Key Club is the student organization of the Kiwanis Club. At Thursday’s breakfast meeting of the Crestview Area Chamber of Commerce, Crestview Kiwanian Ashley Rogers, an attorney with Chesser and Barr, presented Key Club President Olivia Rossel a plaque honoring the club’s achievement.
“They’re doing an awesome job to benefit the community and kids in the community,” Rogers said.
Student members will be cautious when distributing the food to their classmates, Rogers said.
“The school Leadership program is teaching Key Club students to use discretion so the students getting the food don’t feel embarrassed,” she said.
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