BHH Backpacks

It is estimated that 52,000 kids in Palm Beach County are food insecure, and 65% are enrolled in their school’s free and reduced lunch program.


A signature program of Boca Helping Hands since 2011, BHH Backpacks addresses the crisis of youth food insecurity – specifically, the increasing number of children who receive their

primary meal each weekday through the U.S. government-subsidized free and reduced lunch program and don’t have enough to eat on the weekends.


BHH Backpacks reaches over 1,600 students in 13 schools. Boca Helping Hands purchases food and delivers meals to respective schools on a weekly basis. The specific items used cost $10.59 per child/per week.

BHH Backpacks provides food-insecure students with non-perishable, easy-to-prepare meals to ensure they get enough to eat on weekends (when they can’t depend on school meals). Each Friday during the school year (33 weeks), BHH sends local schoolchildren home with a box that meets recommended dietary guidelines that contains (6) meals, two (2) shelf-stable milks, two (2) juice boxes, and three (3) snacks.


Boca Helping Hands has been raising funds and handling the logistics of this program for the last eleven years. Volunteers from local faith communities, businesses, and service clubs have committed their manpower needed to pack the food for this program each week. For volunteer information please visit our volunteer page.

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