Write Start Backpack Project
This year's Backpack Packing Party is Saturday, August 13th!
On Saturday, August 14, 2010, 17
people came to assemble backpacks for the Write Start Backpack Project
under the auspices of the Students in Transition Department at the Santa
Cruz County of Education.
Last year sixty-four plus students in
Santa Cruz County benefited from this generosity.
Here's
what's needed: - packages of binder paper
- rulers
- 2 inch binders
- spiral notebooks
- new
backpacks--NOT red or royal blue, no chains or other gang insignia
- colored pencils
- regular pencils (Ticonderoga are the
best.)
- black or blue pens
- 16 pack
crayons
- calclulators--they can be basic ones, not the high tech
ones
- Spanish-English dictionaries
It's a lot of
stuff, and if people don't want to do the shopping themselves for these
school supplies, checks to help cover the expense for these supplies can
be made out to Aptos UMC, and we will do the shopping for you before the
July 23red Backpack Packing event.
Last year the Back-to-School
sales at Staples, Costco, etc. started in July. That's the time to do
this shopping!
Last year many donated money to this project. Many
others donated time.
TIME, TALENT, TREASURE all came together
for a great cause. Last year we raised $1.624 in cash and that was
fantastic.
The best estimate of the total value of all the money
and supplies donated last year came to $2,363.28. Many homeless and
low-income students in Santa Cruz County got the school supplies they
wouldn't otherwise have had for this school year without the support of
this congregation.
Here are some pictures of the materials
gathered for the backpack packing project:
