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Funds from this District Grant and Rotary Club of Scottsdale North will allow Hopi Relief to provide healthy snacks to school children on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, USA.
Hopi Relief will distribute 240 custom grocery bags each filled with about 28 snack servings and will be distributed at three strategic locations, reaching students in all 12 villages of the Hopi Reservation. With an average of four students per household, it is expected to reach approximately 480 students. Distributions will be in the Fall and Spring semesters at Back to School events with a total of 120 snack bags per distribution, 240 bags total. Healthy snack examples include Nutrigrain bars, fruit snacks, rice cakes, sunflower seeds, etc.
The Hopi Reservation is in a remote region of Arizona where they don't have ready access to chain grocery stores, drug stores or discount stores. This makes it hard to obtain healthy food/snacks for students on a regular basis or an an advantageous price. It is the desire of Hopi Relief to showcase healthier snack options rather than soda/candy and establish lifelong healthy eating habits, reducing diseases that are prevalent on the reservations such as diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney disease etc.
Snacks will be distributed in reusable grocery bags with the logos of both Hopi Relief and Rotary Club of Scottsdale North logo that includes the Rotary wheel.
Rotarians of Rotary Club of Scottsdale North will participate in this project by preparing the grant with the recipient and shepherding through the grant process. RCSN Rotarians will follow up with Hopi Relief to get feedback from the students receiving the snack bags.
Publicity will involve posting information and pictures on the Rotary Club of Scottsdale North various social media channels regarding funding for the Hopi Relief snack bag distribution and the District Grant.
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