Photo credit: Filling in the Blanks
Willo invites you and your family to help pack weekend meal bags for children in need. This is a rewarding way to give back to the community. You will work in an assembly line with other volunteers to fill weekend meal bags. Please note that children must be 14 and accompanied by an adult. If your child is under 14, stay tuned because we will have more volunteer opportunities!
Details:
Date: September 10th, 2026 at 5:30pm
Location: 346 Main Avenue, Norwalk CT
Age: Parents + children ages 14 and up
Attire: Wear closed toe shoes and comfortable clothing because you will be working in a warehouse.
Cost: There is a $20 fee per parent/child pair to cover the cost of pizza and drinks. Additional children are $10 each.
About Filling in the Blanks:
Filling in the Blanks fights childhood hunger by providing children in need with meals on the weekend.
Mothers and community activists Shawnee Knight and Tina Kramer founded Filling in the Blanks in 2013 when they learned that over 34,000 children in Fairfield County alone were experiencing food insecurity.
They observed that children receiving free or reduced meals at school faced a looming meal gap every weekend. Marrying their loves of community, children, food, and philanthropy, they designed a weekend meal bag program to “Fill in the Blank.”
What started with 50 students in one school now serves 10,000 and counting at over 200 sites throughout Fairfield, Westchester, and Putnam counties, in-school pantries and a mobile pantry providing fresh food and connection to needed services.
Filling in the Blanks has delivered over FOUR MILLION meals to local families and continues to find new ways to serve the community.