Student Contributor -S. Peterson
The purpose of Spokane Valley Partners is to help provide and support the basic needs of families in the area. They are committed to help find housing, health care, food, employment and other basic needs for families in the area. There are multiple ways to work with this organization to help donate money, resources, time, and effort. Spokane Valley Partners works to prevent hunger and poverty in the community.
This organization strives to help fight poverty and hunger around the Spokane Valley area. This organization works with businesses and has multiple different ways of involvement. Teachers can partner with this organization by having students do a coin drive to donate the money to buy supplies for families in need. Classrooms can also do a food drive to donate food to families in need. This organization works with schools especially low-income to provide snacks and lunches to students throughout the day. They can help give students breakfasts. This organization also works to help families and partners with businesses where they can sponsor events as well as host their own drives. Spokane Valley Partners is the largest social services agency in Spokane Valley. They have multiple different sources that the community can use to for help. On their website, you are able to click a link for “get help” or “give help”. This organization gives support to the community through food banks, diaper banks, clothing banks, payee services, emergency assistance, food for thought, and other resources. They are able to support the community in multiple ways instead of just one. Spokane Valley Partners helps to support children, families, individuals, and the elderly around the area.
I think that having students work with this organization to help prepare food and make lunches for students/children in the area. Having students learn what goes into making lunches, understanding prices and costs of their favorite foods, and what some of their peers do to get food. The students can put on and be in charge of a whole school coin or food drive. The students can be in charge of counting and sorting food/money, motivating their classmates, and donating the contribution to the organization to help families in need. By putting students in charge, I believe it will open their eyes to how poverty affects their community as well as ways that they can help combat it.
