Steven's Power Pack Club

The Steven A Hunter Hope Fund was established in 2006 for the purpose of providing assistance to the students of the Portsmouth City School District that have financial needs.  It has long been established that the devastating effects of poverty on these students can seriously impede their ability to grow, learn, and develop socially.

It is the desire of the Hope Fund to do more to try to have a positive impact on the lives of these precious children.  With that is mind, we decided to move into the area of nutrition.  Hunger is a serious stumbling block for school aged children.

Our review of statistics from the Ohio Department of Education reveal that students of the Portsmouth City School District and New Boston Local Schools are among the most vulnerable in Scioto County to suffer from the problems associated with hunger in the home.  The sad realization is that many of these children are going without proper nutrition or, in some cases, with no food at all over the weekend, their only meals being provided at breakfast and lunch through the school system.

The Steven A Hunter Hope Fund has proposed and initiated a program with the assistance of the Portsmouth City School District, New Boston Local School District and the Cincinnati FreeStore FoodBank to try to address the problem of weekend hunger for our elementary aged school children.

The program is Steven’s Power Pack Club.  Through the program, food will be distributed to these children to be taken home for the weekend.  The school system will determine the eligibility based on the free and reduced lunch program and upon recommendation of the children’s teachers.  The “food packs” are purchased by the Steven A Hunter Hope Fund from the Cincinnati FreeStore FoodBank.

Other community organizations are encouraged to participate by providing items or services to these “at risk” children.  For more information, please contact the Steven A Hunter Hope Fund.