RAMP focuses on three (3) different areas:

Basic Needs

Nutritional Education

Sustainabiity

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Programs

Backpack Snack

The Backpack Snack Program serves 120+ students in six (6) Martin County public schools by providing nutritious, easy to prepare food and produce to those children who have little or no access to food on weekends. The children finish the school week two Fridays of each month with a backpack of food to bring home. This ensures that they have something nutritious to eat before returning to school the following Monday.

Healthy KY Kids

RAMP is trying to improve nutrition of the school-aged children through healthy eating initiatives within the
schools and has provided six (6) salad bars at the public schools for school lunches. Additional Family Fun & Food Nights and educational programs are also being implemented on the school level to bring parents,
educators and students together in a fun environment that fosters nutrition education, food fun, cooking,
grocery shopping tips and healthy lifestyle programs together in a fun format for all ages.

Homecoming Food Pantry
Opened in 2009, this food pantry serves 150+ families and is located in a remote hollow in Inez, Kentucky.
RAMP supports the food pantry by providing nonperishable healthy food, fresh produce, household items,
baby products, cleaning and personal hygiene items. A monthly healthy dinner for the community is also
provided. RAMP re-vamped the offerings and stocks the food pantry with only nutritious food – no junk food or
soda.

Micro Loans
RAMP is proud to offer Micro Loans, up to $3,000, to qualified local entrepreneurs in Martin County
interested in starting a business or expanding on a current enterprise. RAMP’s first micro loan was
awarded to Betty Harris for her Calf Creek Creations - a quilting and sewing enterprise that is
making beautiful Appalachian products such as aprons and quilts that are being sold at select Whole
Foods Market stores in the mid-Atlantic region and will soon be available online.

Community & School Gardens
RAMP has built a large community garden and three (3) school gardens in Martin County. The goal is to
provide the community with long-term food sustainability and potential income-generating projects from the crops that grow (farmer’s markets, canning, food products, etc.) A large chicken coop serving the Homecoming Food Pantry community was also built, that provides more than 4 dozen eggs on a daily basis which are distributed to families that help maintain the garden and chickens and are served by the Homecoming Food Pantry.

Community Co-Op
The Community Co-Op is an ambitious dream of providing cohesive resources directly to the community through a mobile traveling bus that serves Martin County. The bus is equipped with technology and will provide hands-on nutrition advice, cooking skills & seminars, a mobile food pantry, and can be utilized as a produce/farmer’s
market stand and event center. The Co-Op coordinator that will be RAMP’s local liaison with the community, schools and residents and coordinate RAMP’s other programs and services.