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Like John Haskin once said, “give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.” This is a powerful phrase, and our team understands how moving it is. An overall sense of wellbeing is felt when you become a giver of time and resources while giving back to society, especially to children.

When the children at our neighboring Metro Nashville Berry Hill Head start program leave school for one of their many breaks, we try and alleviate some of their worries on figuring out how they will get their next meal. Our concept is simple, but extremely rewarding. For the last few years, we have provided each student with a food pack that is child-friendly, nutritious, and easy to eat during spring and fall breaks.

Preparing for this year’s Fall Break was not any different. Last week started off by spending a couple of hours on Tuesday going through the aisles of Costco picking out meals, snacks, and drinks for the children. That afternoon, it was all hands-on deck as we began to assemble the food packs. With all the hard work of our team members, we filled just over 220 food packs by Wednesday afternoon.

Thursday was the big day! The team assembled outside the office and loaded up a couple of our trucks with food packs and headed over to the school to drop them off. Everything went smooth and the head start staff greeted us with open arms. Although we didn’t get to see the kids walk off with their food packs, the smiles and joyous look on the staff’s face said it all. As always, they were thankful that we took the time and effort to help their children out. Our team drove back to the office knowing we had a positive impact on our community.

For more information on the Metro Nashville’s Headstart program, feel free to click this link. https://www.nashville.gov/Metro-Action-Commission/Head-Start.aspx. We welcome opportunities to give back and look forward to future initiatives.