The St. Louis Area Foodbank, with support from the Bayer Fund, is addressing hunger by providing school food markets at no cost for students and their families in selected school districts in the greater St. Louis area.
“We believe that by giving students access to these school food markets, we can increase class attendance, decrease the number of trips to the school nurse’s office, and help contribute to healthier futures for every child in our community,” said Meredith Knopp, president and CEO of the St. Louis Area Foodbank.
Just last month, a $90,000 grant from Bayer allowed Cahokia School District in Illinois to open a market at the Power of Change Family Multiplex. For the 5,000 students and their families in the Jennings School District in Missouri, J-Town Market opened at Fairview Elementary School and the Jennings Educational Training School.
