Teller Elementary food bank program helps hungry kids at home

Judy Barker, left, and Doña Dodson grab yogurt to put into bags for students to take home at Teller Elementary in Denver on March 26, 2015. (Seth McConnell, Your Hub)

The children of Doña Dodson, Sandy Parker and Jim Shively are all grown up, but that isn’t stopping them from doing their best to ensure that other kids get enough to eat.

The trio heads up a food bank program at Teller Elementary School in the Congress Park neighborhood that sends food home over weekends and school breaks with some of the needy children at the school.

The Teller Backpack Friends program started in 2013 after Dodson, Parker and Shively took it over from teachers who were noticing that some of their students were coming to school hungry.

“Most of us are astounded that there are so many hungry people in our neighborhood,” said Parker, who has two grandchildren attending Teller.

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