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While the schools can do a great job of giving children meals during the school day, many children face weekends and summers without having enough food to have three good meals each day. The founders of Mercy Cares first started addressing this issue more than five years ago by leading a group of church volunteers to adopt a school.
One of the needs that was identified by school officials, were the many children who needed extra food in their homes during the weekend. School officials identified the children who needed help and the group started collecting food to send home in backpacks with the selected children each weekend. Other schools heard of the program and asked for help for some of their students. Soon, there were more students who needed extra food than what the group could feed. Because of the need to seek outside donations, the Mercy Cares was formed as a 501 (c)(3) non profit.
