Northern Virginia – Assistance League Receives Grant From No Child Goes Hungry

Assistance League of Northern Virginia is grateful to have received a grant from No Child Goes Hungry, a nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating childhood hunger. No Child Goes Hungry connects charitable organizations that work to reduce food insecurity on a local level with donors who want to help eliminate childhood hunger. Assistance League will use the funds to purchase grocery store gift cards for families of students at Pine Spring Elementary School, in Falls Church. It is one of the six elementary schools in Fairfax and Prince William counties and Alexandria that was receiving the charity’s Weekend Food for Kids food bags each month. The bags contained enough kid-friendly food for 2 breakfasts and 2 lunches. When schools closed in the spring, the nonprofit suspended that program, and instead, began providing grocery store gift cards to the families of those students. The grant from No Child Goes Hungry will allow the chapter to continue providing the much-needed grocery store gift cards at a time when so many in our community have been severely affected financially by the pandemic. Assistance League is honored to have been selected by NCGH for this grant. Both organizations are committed to reducing childhood hunger and helping those most in need in the community.