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P-EBT cards should be arriving shortly for students that have qualified. If you need more help, talk with your school counselor about getting a pak of food each week from Booster Pak as well.

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Tomorrow is a big day! We hope all our students have a great first day, and great school year. To help make sure it's a great year, if your child needs extra food on the weekends, discuss this with their counselor so they could sign up for a pack to go home every Friday!

Anyone may also sign up here if you can meet income requirements:

Sign Up - Booster Pak We can all use some help. But it's hard to ask someone for help. At Booster Pak, we want you to know we're here for you. We want to make sure your student is successful. No child in our community should go hungry. So let us help you. It's easy. All you need to do

Monday the 21st are the Tiger Launches and open houses across the district. This will be a great time to reach out to your child's counselor or nutrition services to get help signing up for Booster Pak if your child could use some extra food on the weekend!

Home - Booster Pak Our Kids Need Your Help At the end of the the school week in the West Des Moines Community School District, a student will open their locker and find a sack of food has been placed there. This will occur multiple times at every elementary, junior high school, Valley Southwoods, Walnut Creek and Vall...

Don't forget, the last summer distribution will be Friday, August 11th.
If you need to sign up for weekend paks during the school year, please reach out to your WDMCS school's counselor or principal. Walnut Creek and Valley students, you can sign up to use the school pantries.
Anyone may also sign up here if you can meet income requirements: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXVhZuj9j0IECvmRB2-b9l4FFkNA4CAxnnjws6gvuPi33tHQ/viewform?pli=1

Thank you, thank you, thank you Lutheran Church of Hope West Des Moines! We were able to gather over 1100 items to start the school year!
And thank you to my crew for helping manage it all!

Don't forget, if you need extra food on the weekends, to stop by legion park tomorrow.

We are happy to announce our summer program this year will be run by Valley Community Center. Any student, whom could use extra food on the weekend, is welcome to grab a pack on the days listed! These times coinside with the times nutrition services will be at Legion Park serving lunch.

We know families could use a little help sometimes. If you need help, a great resource is below. You can look for pantries anywhere in the country.

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Lutheran Church of Hope had their big SOUPer Bowl Drive. We were able to get over 2000 items from them to go in our secondary paks and pantries! Thank you to all who donated and helped get the items to our warehouse.

We love when individuals help when they can. Thank you Kristina Harris for donating a whole box full if items, about 75 individuals items, for our paks!

It's not even Thanksgiving and this crew already helped finish the giftcards that will go out at winter break! Thanks Valley High School Senior Plus group!

Indian Hills kids did their annual FEED THE POD and we got so many items from them. 2 of the 5 volunteers that helped today are pictured.

The sale will be Saturday, November 19 from 8 to 10:30am at Valley Church.

Items that will be available to shop this Saturday at the fall event include winter coats, clothing (men, women, and kids), accessories, shoes, toys, and games.

Let’s remember our neighbors in need this season by donating items for the Garage No Sale. We need winter coats, clothing, jewelry, shoes, accessories (purses, bags, belts, etc.), toys and games.

Garage No Sale invites individuals in need from our community to come in and select these items without cost. Let’s show God’s love by helping our neighbors in need.

You can drop off donations at Valley Church on Thursday, November 17 from noon–7 pm and Friday, November 18 from 10 am–6 pm.

🚨VOLUNTEERS NEEDED🚨
If you are interested in volunteering to organize items before the event or serving at the event on Saturday, November 19, please go to https://www.signupgenius.com/go/garagenosale

Our amazing crew added a fresh apple and giftcard to our packs for the students to get something extra over Thanksgiving break!

If you or someone you know has become suddenly homeless and needs a little food and hygiene supplies, contact your school's counselor so we can get them to you. Below is an example of a bag you will receive to get through a day or two until more resources are found.

To date, Booster Pak has distributed more than 200,000 sacks to students and their families in the WDMCS.

Thank you to Dr.Matt Adams and his team for helping us add fresh fruit to each bag.

Special shout out to Marcia Munger for her generous donation of apples.

Valley Southwoods is starting a clothing closet and they are in need of hangers. Do you have some to spare? Email us at [email protected] or drop them off at Valley Southwoods. Thanks for you help!

We want to give a big thank you to https://www.facebook.com/RotaryClubOfGreaterDesMoines/
They donated items and we put together 100 paks for our secondary students.

The Valley High School Senior Plus group are always top notch volunteers for us!

We know many students could use the extra help with meals on the weekends, that's where we come in. Since 2010 Booster Pak has been helping to provide meals for West Des Moines Community Schools students. If your family could benefit from this assistance, all you need to do is reach out to your student's home school (counselor) to register and a Pak will be sent home every week.

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A big THANK YOU to Lutheran Church of Hope for the donations and our awesome volunteers for finding everything to start the school year! We were able to collect over 700 items for our paks and pantries.

Don't forget WDMCS is providing free lunches to kids 1-18 every week day.
Booster Pak is providing monthly meals for students who are currently registered or registered for the day.

Booster Pak has the best volunteers! This crew came together and packed about 300 sacks to hand out to kids as part of our summer program!
We will be at Harbach Center and Legion Park Friday, June 17th passing out paks to registered students.

Booster Pak added a button to help you learn more about them.