Robert & Glenda Wyatt – Feed A Child Yancey

Several years ago, Robert Wyatt of Burnsville, North Carolina was a reporter for a regional newspaper called the Asheville Citizen-Times. He was assigned to write a story about students in a neighboring county who were going hungry over the weekend without school lunches to help sustain them, and he started to wonder if weekend hunger was a problem in his county as well. He and his wife Glenda did some research and found out that 60% of the students in their county live in low-income households, so in 2007 they founded Feed A Child Yancey to provide bags of food on a weekly basis to students in their area that need some help getting through the weekend. Their efforts grew quickly and now with the help of over 100 active volunteers, they’ve given out more than 80,000 bags and provided more than 150,000 pounds of food to kids in need.

Contact Information:

Phone: (828) 675-0090 Address: 151 Laurel Height’s Drive , Burnsville, North Carolina, 28714 https://youtu.be/tp3AhJwOScU https://soundcloud.com/etown-3/echievement-award-robert-wyatt