Student: 'The Boomerang Backpacks are here!

April 21: High school teacher, Mark Cockroft, has devised a program that provides weekend snacks to elementary students on the school lunch program by giving them backpacks filled with food. It's a simple idea; be sure students have enough to eat on weekends. Backpacks are packed by volunteers and distributed every Friday, returned empty on Monday, and refilled days later. Mark Cockroft on the boomerang backpack program, in his own words. (Nightly News)

MSNBC | April 21, 2009

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