Woman Running Food Pantry For School Children Surprised With Gifts

A woman running a food pantry for school children is surprised with gifts, and it’s a wonderful little surprise. She worked as a school secretary at AH Bush Elementary School in Idaho Falls for 16 years, and even though she’s retired, she still runs the food pantry for children who might need to take home food for the weekend. Watch the video to see a little bit of the blessing she gives come back her way. 

East Idaho News set up a fake emergency meeting to get the woman, Patrice, to come to the school so they could surprise her. It’s so sweet to see this Idaho woman running a food pantry, surprised with gifts–a restaurant and an Amazon gift card, which she said she will use for the food pantry. 

“I don't want them hungry on the weekends,” Patrice said of the kids at the school and why she created the pantry. “I want them to go home and have kid-friendly food that they can prepare themselves. And their families are

welcome to come and shop here with us, just take whatever they want.”

How Patrice Is Helping Where She Can

According to the Idaho Food Bank’s website, there are 84,750 food-insecure children in the state of Idaho. So Patrice is helping fill a big need that some families have. 

“I retired, and then they just kind of called and said we need someone to help with thi,s no one's no one's doing it,” Patrice said. “We worked long and hard to get it set up, and I didn't want it to go to waste. So my kind sister Penny and my husband Pete and all of our kids come [and help].”

It is wonderful that a news station got wind of this woman running the food pantry and surprised her with gifts. Hopefully, the pantry has all the help it needs now. 

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