A BLUEGRASS ORTHODONTICS COMMUNITY PROJECT.
Did you know that as many as 12 million elementary school children are on the free or reduced meal programs at school?
In order to help these children and as the school year ends, we are asking patients to bring in their gently used or new backpacks to help with a local organization called This program fills the backpacks with ready to eat food such as tuna, raisins, applesauce, granola bars, etc. and distributes them to local schools. The backpacks are then delivered to the qualifying children on a Friday with the intention of helping to feed them for the weekend.
Currently Blessings in a Backpack is feeding nearly 59,000 children in 390 schools in 35 states and in 3 countries! Kentucky right now has 47 schools in the backpack program of which 4 schools are located in Lexington!
To learn more about Blessings in a Backpack you can visit them at
We will be accepting backpacks in each of our 4 office locations through
August 30th.
