For every donation made to WUKY until Dec. 31, Stewart Perry of State Farm Insurance, Anita Britton of Britton Johnson Law, Back Construction, Salomon and Company, and UK Federal Credit Union will fill five backpacks of food for children in need through God’s Pantry Food Bank’s backpack program. The sponsors will fill up to 2,500 backpacks for at-risk children with the support of WUKY listeners. This is 1,000 more backpacks than were filled during the program last year.
This program began in 2016 when WUKY partnered with God's Pantry and Stewart Perry of State Farm. It was so successful, that more businesses have joined allowing for more backpacks to be filled and more children to be fed. According to Feed America's Mapping the Meal Gap, the child food insecurity rate in Fayette County is 17.1 percent which is 10,490 children.
