Kids who are home from school due to the COVID-19 outbreak can only watch Netflix for so long before they get bored.
Three Beloit-area non-profits are working to help provide fun and healthy activities for children in low-income families.
Community Action announced a partnership with the Stateline Family YMCA and the Stateline Boys and Girls Club to provide activity bags for children in the Merrill and Hackett neighborhoods.
Community Action Interim Deputy Director Marc Perry said the bags include books, markers, snacks and even donated gift certificates to Culver’s.
The non-profits will help distribute them with the School District of Beloit at Merrill and Hackett Elementary Schools when children come to pick up free lunches in the coming weeks.
Perry credited the strong relationships between the service providers and the neighborhoods for helping organize the effort.
They’re starting with 100 activity bags for each elementary school, but they plan to let the bags sit five days after packing them in order to mitigate any potential spread of coronavirus.
