I’m excited about this week. Pantry Executive Sara Harrington and I launched a new Army Of Good project at the Cambridge Food Pantry in honor of Help Feed The Pantry  Children’s Food Week this coming week.

My color art and daffodil pictures are in honor of the Pantry kids.

Today, we chose fruit juices as the first item of the week. The program is new, different, and inexpensive. Today through Friday, we will offer five different foods for children, all urgently needed and affordable.

I hope to do this frequently, and I hope you can help. We hope to stuff this week’s backpacks—they are going to 66 children of Pantry families—with juices, soups, candy bars, healthy breakfast cereal, and soup.

The pantry always chooses expensive foods.

For $8.06,  we can each give 40 juices to kids for their lunch this week.  That launches this week’s program; the need is severe and urgent. Also on the list this week will be Instant Oatmeal, Chicken Noodle Soup, Cinnamon Life Cereal, and Chicken Ramen.

We want to stuff their food backpacks on Thursday with enough good and nutritious and wanted food for every kid of a Pantry family. Maria and I will be there on Thursday, stuffing the backpacks, which were 66 packs last week. The packs reach 66 families, and 180 children are served.

(Above, the food packs that went to the kids last week, we had to substitute some of the items; there wasn’t enough of what we wanted to put in the bags.)

These goods are foods the children want, need, or love. We can only work minor miracles, but the Army of Good has a rich history of working small miracles. Please check out the program—one food a day, one food at a time. It’s awful to think of children without enough good food.

My photos are always free. The food for the kids isn’t, sadly.

I hope you enjoy the photos. I loved taking them.

Daffodils

Against a gray sky

White Rose and Lianthus

I’m still trying to figure out the name of this one. You can check out the children’s food program here.