The Oklahoma Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture recognised more than 140 Oklahoma FFA chapters for donating to the foundation’s Pork for Packs program as a part of the 2022-2023 Oklahoma FFA Hunger Challenge, according to a press release from the foundation.
A total of $13,297 and 310 hogs were donated to the program throughout the school year.
Pork for Packs – a collaboration between the OKFB Foundation for Agriculture, the Regional Food Bank of Oklahoma and the Community Food Bank of Eastern Oklahoma – provides protein sticks for chronically hungry children in Oklahoma. The protein sticks are included in food-filled backpacks given to students to eat during weekends and holidays, when meals at school are not available.
The monetary and in-kind donations were able to produce 496,000 protein sticks for hungry children across Oklahoma.