CLEARWATER, Fla. – Laura Kopec, age 16, of Clearwater, Florida, has been named an honoree of the 2022 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes. Each year, the Barron Prize celebrates 25 inspiring young leaders – fifteen top winners and ten honorees – who have made…
Teen sisters from Tarpon Springs are helping feed foster families in the Tampa Bay area. They founded the non-profit Feeding the Fosters in 2019 and with the help of volunteers, they've prepared nearly 40,000 meals.
We’ve all felt the pinch of higher food costs. For many foster families in the bay area, inflation hits home even harder. Yet, two Pinellas County sisters are on a mission to feed foster families.
Teenage sisters start nonprofit cooking meals for foster families
Samantha and Laura Kopec are providing meals to 35 independent foster families on a daily basis through their nonprofit organization, Feeding the Fosters.
and last updated 2020-12-30 18:34:08-05
CLEARWATER, Fla. â Two teenage sisters in Clearwater are changing the lives of foster families through the power of home-cooked meals.
Seventeen-year-old Samantha Kopec, and her 15-year-old sister Laura, move around the kitchen in perfect harmony. For the past year and a half, they ve been cooking two to three meals a week for their nonprofit organization, Feeding the Fosters. Cooking meals that our great grandmother passed down to us, all the way from Italy, so we ll make baked ziti and chicken parm, said Samantha, who is a senior at Tarpon Springs High School.