Operation Backpack To Give School Supplies To Needy Families

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COLUMBIA, Md. (WJZ) — As kids get acceptable to caput backmost to school, families are starting to load up connected schoolhouse supplies.

Unfortunately, it’s an disbursal that immoderate families can’t afford. That’s wherever Operation Backpack steps successful to help.

They program to supply 2,500 students successful the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia country with backpacks that Lydia Barkley-Colbert and different volunteers battalion to beryllium distributed to students successful request from Operation Backpack.

The backpacks travel afloat of grade-appropriate supplies that were either donated oregon bought with donated funds. Helping easiness the load that back-to-school buying tin enactment connected low-income families.

“There’s a batch of families that person mislaid their occupation and truthful conscionable being capable to assistance those families means a batch to us,” said Barkley-Colbert, who was helping worldly the backpacks.

It’s an effort organized by Volunteers of America Chesapeake and Carolinas.

“With debased income, and successful homelessness, the interaction of acquisition is tremendous,” said Gianna Sullivan with Volunteers of America, “So what we privation to bash is assistance these young kids get caller backpacks successful and get raring to spell erstwhile they get backmost to school.”

While connected the surface, it whitethorn look conscionable similar pens and pencils, they could beryllium precise good mounting them up for a beingness of success.

“Ideally we privation them to emotion what they do, and bash what they love,” said Dr. Sullivan, “and we privation them to observe their vocation successful acquisition and beryllium precise palmy and prosperous successful surviving their dream.”

On Saturday alone, they packed 250 backpacks. They’re not done; they inactive person backpack packing events planned, and they besides request donations.

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