Throughout the month of July and the beginning of August, our church has been doing its annual outreach with the community to gather backpacks and school supplies to help kids starting back to school. All items were delivered to the Brantford Foodbank where they were much appreciated.
Thursday, August 7, was a fun night as we met members of St. George who stopped by to drop off their bags, boxes, totes of supplies and even some new running shoes. As a thank you, each person received a pen with our name and phone number on it.
In total we are proud to say that we were able to collect 41 backpacks and numerous supplies along with donations of $105.00.
The financial cost for fulfilling this need can be considerable for so many families that would find this a huge challenge to their already overstretched budgets.
This backpack endeavour has grown exponentially over the three years that we have partnered with the community, rather than just with our church alone.
We firmly believe that we are put in this world to help others.
Sharon Travers