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YMCA Clay County Youth Food Delivery Program
We are the Clay County Youth Food Delivery Program. This is our picture and logo. This is a picture of the thank you card we received from a child in 2017 after we sent food home on the weekend for the child. No child should "werry" about their next meal. We are a community working together to do all we can to ensure kids don't "werry" on school breaks We deliver food to the children in Clay County for weekends, daily during summer breaks and we deliver 2 weeks of shelf-stable food for Christmas Delivery thanks to Duke Energy and our community to helps fill the need left for volunteers and financial donations. We are a community working together and doing the impossible.
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Week 10
Posted Friday, May 15, 2020, at 9:09 AMTo our families and volunteers. Delivery this week will be on Sunday, 5/17/20, in Clay County North after 2:30 pm. Food in Clay County South will be delivered this following Wednesday evening. We were able to get enough food in again this week!... -
Something is going on
Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2020, at 10:45 AMSomething is going on we have not experienced before in our Program. Quite frankly, we expected our numbers by now to be the same they are for Summer Program each year, which is over 800 kiddos daily. Our numbers are staying around 420 right now. The numbers will probably grow again once school is over for the year and families can’t pick up 5 days of food at the School Corporation, but in the meantime, we are hearing from families like never before. ... -
About this weekend
Posted Friday, April 10, 2020, at 9:57 AMTo our families and volunteers. It seems many food items are on back order right now, but we will deliver the food we have been able to get in this week on Sunday in Clay County North after 2:30 this Sunday. Food in Clay County South will be delivered this Wednesday evening. ... -
Update April 1, 2020
Posted Wednesday, April 1, 2020, at 9:51 AMTo our families we deliver to: Our plan is to deliver every week over Break 2020. If we have not delivered to your family yet, you need to contact us. You have to sign up every school break for our program. If we have delivered to you already for break 2020, you are signed up... -
Word to volunteers about this Sunday
Posted Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at 9:50 AMTo our volunteers: We love you! If you have not been contacted to help this Sunday, 3/29/20, to help pack food or deliver, please do not show up to help. We are following guidelines and limiting the numbers of our volunteers. There will be 10 people loading and drivers will stay in their vehicle and have the food loaded. ... -
Together
Posted Wednesday, February 26, 2020, at 9:28 AMWe added Staunton Elementary School and Head Start to the School Program in February 2020. We have always served them during the Summer Program and for Christmas Delivery, but until this week they had been served during the School Program by another ministry. Thank you to the other ministry that served these kiddos until they were no longer able to. It takes a community working together... -
The story behind the picture of the clock
Posted Thursday, January 23, 2020, at 9:19 AMWe didn’t get any pictures of our volunteers packing food this evening. We do have this picture. We are usually finished by this time after we start packing at 6 pm almost 400 bags of food for the kids for 6 schools and Cradles in CC North. And by finished, we mean the food is packed in totes and taken to the vehicles of the volunteers who show up weekly to deliver food to each school! Six tables are taken down and stored and any leftover food is taken back up 2 flights of stairs and stored for the next week First Baptist Church.. ... -
McKinley Hill church kids help feed other children
Posted Tuesday, January 21, 2020, at 9:46 AMThank you to the McKinley Hill Church After School Care kiddos for bagging cereal for the kids! #kidshelpingkids And the rest of this story. We posted, emailed and asked our friends for help a couple of months ago. We needed around 400 bags of cereal bagged every week of the school year. ... -
Some of Santa's helpers plan to pack more than 800 parcels of food this Friday
Posted Wednesday, December 18, 2019, at 9:00 AMChristmas Delivery 2019 for the kids is complicated, as most of what we do is because we make it up as we go along and our community helps us figure it out! Anyone can show up to help pack bags for the kids on Friday, 12/20/19, at 6 pm at the 4-H Fairgrounds... -
Need help to pack 2,000 bags of food for Christmas
Posted Thursday, December 12, 2019, at 9:46 AMWe will pack around 2,000 bags of food for Christmas Delivery 2019 at 6 pm on Friday, 12/20/19, at the Clay County 4-H Fairgrounds, 6650 N SR 59, Brazil, Indiana. We will start at 6 p.m. When will we finish? It depends on how many volunteers can make it to help pack the bags. Simply show up to help if you can make it. Many hands and feet make the load lighter and usually a bit more fun!... -
Just because it is the season
Posted Friday, December 6, 2019, at 10:19 AMJust because it is the season! Things often get a bit complicated this time of year. Ok, maybe things are always complicated in our Program. We are asking for some extra help this Wednesday, 12/11/19... -
Figureoutable?
Posted Tuesday, November 19, 2019, at 9:22 AMIs this "figureoutable" even a word? We make this up as we go along and our community helps us figure it out! We kind of like the word that isn't really a word. We need help from a few of our friends. We have found many of our kids have families who do not fill out the forms, see the forms or know about our Program. We have around 500 kiddos signed up and permission for Christmas Delivery 2019 and know the need is over 1,000 kids... -
Christmas is to help kids
Posted Tuesday, November 5, 2019, at 10:06 AMInfo: Festival of Trees 2019... -
Relationship between the YMCA and the Clay County Youth Food Delivery Program can be confusiing
Posted Thursday, October 24, 2019, at 9:25 AMYou know we like to make it as confusing as possible. You know we are a Program of the Clay County YMCA. We would like to explain that the Clay County YMCA does not solicit funds for our Program, but our community does. The reason the Y does not solicit funds for our Program is because they are working to raise funds to help the families and children in our community in another way. ... -
Thanks for being the change
Posted Friday, September 20, 2019, at 9:17 AMIt is unlikely many of us will change the world. It is unlikely we will be considered to have done great things by the world’s standard of success. We are not asked to be successful. We are asked to be faithful. Sometimes, the greatest thing we can do is the simple thing put before us. We cannot change the world, but we can “be the change.” One person at a time, each doing their part. That is how we change the world. One person, one child at a time... -
Wedding Bells
Posted Thursday, August 22, 2019, at 11:36 AMWe received a message this morning from a mom. She asked for information about the food donations we need the most and how to donate funds to our Program. We explained donations go through Clay County YMCA marked “Youth Food Program” and emailed her a list of the foods we use weekly... -
Stories behind numbers
Posted Friday, August 2, 2019, at 12:49 PMEvery number has a story behind it. The story of the child, the family, the donors and the volunteers. As we focus on the daily needs our community meets and the lives touched, we often don't step back and add everything up... -
35,898
Posted Sunday, July 21, 2019, at 3:31 PMWe did it! Summer 2019. We did it together as a community working together. We counted both Big Deliveries as 15 lunches (3 weeks), but we think (and pray) it is a little bit more... -
Frequently Asked Question #2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7 & 8
Posted Wednesday, July 3, 2019, at 10:31 AMFrequently Asked Question #2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7 & 8: Where did all of these families and kids come from all of the sudden who need help with food? What did they do before this Program came along in the Summer and at Christmas? Would they starve without your Program? Isn't it the families responsibility? Don't the families receive assistance? Why don't the parents (grandparents, great-grandparents, aunt, etc) work? Why do your volunteers keep giving so much of their time and your community keep giving to an endless need and isn't it someone else's problem? Doesn't the government take care of this?. ... -
We cried and then we smiled
Posted Friday, June 21, 2019, at 10:27 AMMany of us cried today. Our tears were not tears of sadness, but tears of gratitude and awe. As we finish up our daily delivery next week, we are faced with delivering three weeks of shelf-stable food and water on June 29, 2019 in Clay County North and June 28, 2019 in Clay County South. ...
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