SARATOGA SPRINGS — Leonard Bus Sales announced that they have partnered with the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York, and six other regional food banks, to help end child hunger and raise awareness about the importance of supporting local food banks throughout New York State.
Leonard Bus Sales, the region’s distributor of IC Bus and Trans Tech brand school buses, is supporting school-based backpack and food pantry programs that provide meals to children when they are not in school. Its donations were announced during the New York Association for Pupil Transportation’s annual School Transportation Conference held this week at the Albany Marriott on Wolf Road in Colonie.
Leonard Bus Sales is supporting school-based backpack and food pantry programs servicing 57 counties. In those counties, roughly 22,000 children benefit from these programs each week--the company will help feed about 4,000 children per year.
Established by the group Feeding America, the national backpack program provides meals to over 450,000 children in need during the time they are not in school. The food is usually discretely distributed at the end of the school day, and given to the child when they leave for the weekend or vacation.
To learn more about school-based hunger programs or to find regional food banks in your area, Leonard Bus Sales recommends the website http://feedingamerica.org.
