Coming Soon: PIKnic at the Park
We will be launching PIKnic at the Park, a program sponsored by the Protect Idaho Kids Foundation (PIK) to feed children for free each Sunday while practicing social distancing and Covid-19 health practices.
The program will take place at Ann Morrison Park, 1000 S Americana Blvd, Boise, ID 83706, and will run for 10 weeks each Sunday from June 28 to August 30th. Tickets will be free but required, providing an accurate count for the number of lunches needed. Information on how to obtain tickets will be published soon.
Each person with a ticket will be given a pre-packaged lunch consisting of a sandwich, fruit, chips and a fruit drink. Adults who bring kids will also be provided a free lunch, but they must have a ticket for each person. Lunches can be taken home or eaten at the park as long as local and national social distancing restrictions are observed.
If you would like to donate to help feed the kids Click Here.
We can also use help with this event. If you would like to volunteer Click here.
Free tickets for all weekends will be available on this site on June 1.
PIKnic at the Park funding will go towards providing food for the food insecure children, but we will also be providing very needed income for foster kids and other young adults struggling to gain their independence. I’m sure you are aware of the difficulties food insecure children face and why a day at the park and a free lunch will help them. You may not be as aware of the plight that faces foster children when they "age-out” of foster care.
Being a Guardian Ad Litem I became aware of some of the problems these children face. Some of the sad statistics are:

• • One in four will not graduate from high school or be able to pass their GED.
• • Fewer than 4% will earn a college degree at any point in their life.
• • 7 out of 10 girls will become pregnant before the age of 21.

Within a few years of leaving foster care:

• • One fourth will have endured some period of homelessness.
• • Almost two-thirds have not maintained employment for a year.
• • Four out to ten have become parents.
• • Not even one in five is completely self-supporting.
• • One in four males and one in ten females have spent time in jail.

To assist with this, we chose to prepare the food for PIKnic at the Park at Life’s Kitchen and hire their staff which consists of many foster children to do the food preparation. This offers them some needed income at this difficult time. The more we raise in funding the more Life’s Kitchen kids we can hire. The PIKnics do double duty, they feed food insecure kids, and they help young adults struggling to find their self-sufficiency. PLEASE HELP, your donation will be GREATLY APPRECIATED. I thank you, and the kids thank you.
-Bruce Wingate