<p>I was at a school last year where we did have a percentage of students on free/reduced lunch. We also made baskets of food and bought Thanksgiving dinners from the QFC to give to these families over break. Not enough but there are other resources besides the school for meals.
We also had a snow sports program, enough fundraising was done so that every single student who wanted to go could go. This included subsidizing them for equipment, clothes, lift tickets, lessoons and transportation. We also tried to get students who had received scholarships in previous years to help out with fundraising for following years. Some did, but often the effort was cursory, and I felt that I was wasting mine.</p>
<p>I agree that there are not enough resources for all who need them, the veterans for one, but there are resources out there and it is the attitude rather than the circumstances that make the difference.
( I am coming from perspective of someone who didn't have a working furnace in our house for almost two years. We could not afford it, but we couldn't get help because we made too much. Unfortunately the bulk of that money was going to pay collection agency debt which was running 24% from when we were forced to use our credit card to pay medical bills when our insurance and the hospital billing office messed up. The hospital would not accept any partial or late payments and turned us over to a collection agency :( Its all fine now though, and it really ****es me off that this hospital has now taken over the majority of the neighborhood hospitals in the city.</p>