GIVE A BACKPACK AND SUPPLIES, HELP A CHILD PREPARE FOR SCHOOL
Giving Tree - Healthy Families Backpacks
The July Giving Tree supports
Healthy Families, a local organization working with at-risk families in our community. They need backpacks and school supplies for the kindergarten-bound 5-year olds in families graduating from the program. Pick a tag from the tree in the Parish Hall to help a child get off to a happy first day of school. Can't make it to the Parish Hall? Here's a list of needed items -- new please! Please return them to the Parish Hall by Sunday, July 25th. Healthy Families will assemble and distribute them in time for the first day of school next month.
- jumbo crayons
- large pencils
- washable markers
- white glue
- glue sticks
- blunt scissors
- pencil box (or zippered pouch)
- facial tissues
- backpack (for a 5-year old)
For info contact Ginger Pavloff (966-8715) or Nancy Rafter (346-3972).
Last Published: July 6, 2010 2:23 PM
Our July Giving Tree supported Healthy Families, a program of the Florida Center for Child and Family Development, working to stem abuse and neglect in at-risk families in our community. We collected supply-filled backpacks --70 of them!-- for kindergarteners in the program as they headed off to their first day of school. 