Back to School RI Gives Backpacks to Local Students
Back to School RI Gives Backpacks to Local Students
This event provides 16,000 school children from diverse and low-income families with back packs stuffed with necessary school supplies to start their school year prepared to learn. The children were accompanied by parents and/or guardians who assisted the children with the back packs.
The back packs had been previously stuffed in late July at the Providence Journal Warehouse by more than 250 volunteers from all over the state.
Eleven sites around the state were selected to be distribution centers for the filled back packs. They included:
Veteran’s Memorial Elementary
Bernard F. Norton School
Sullivan Elementary
Pawtucket Red Sox
Hope High School
Nathanael Greene Middle School
Parent Information and Student Registration
United Way
West End Community Center
Wakefield Hills Elementary
St. James Baptist Church
Community resource tables from cooperating organizations were staffed with volunteers. AARP RI resource tables held information available on the State Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Health Care Reform Implementation and Social Security information. All materials were in both English and Spanish.
Jorge Cardenas, a member of the Executive Council of AARP RI along with Sodexo, the founder of Back to School RI arranged for the water and refreshments supplied to all 11 distribution sites.
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Back to School RI Gives Backpacks to Local Students
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images On August 21, more than 75 AARP volunteers including members of the RI Retired Teachers Association and local AARP chapters helped local students when they joined with volunteers from 17 other community organizations to participate in the Annual Back to School RI Backpack distribution event.This event provides 16,000 school children from diverse and low-income families with back packs stuffed with necessary school supplies to start their school year prepared to learn. The children were accompanied by parents and/or guardians who assisted the children with the back packs.
The back packs had been previously stuffed in late July at the Providence Journal Warehouse by more than 250 volunteers from all over the state.
Eleven sites around the state were selected to be distribution centers for the filled back packs. They included:
Veteran’s Memorial Elementary
Bernard F. Norton School
Sullivan Elementary
Pawtucket Red Sox
Hope High School
Nathanael Greene Middle School
Parent Information and Student Registration
United Way
West End Community Center
Wakefield Hills Elementary
St. James Baptist Church
Community resource tables from cooperating organizations were staffed with volunteers. AARP RI resource tables held information available on the State Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Health Care Reform Implementation and Social Security information. All materials were in both English and Spanish.
Jorge Cardenas, a member of the Executive Council of AARP RI along with Sodexo, the founder of Back to School RI arranged for the water and refreshments supplied to all 11 distribution sites.
For more volunteer opportunities please check out . Cancel You are leaving AARP.org and going to the website of our trusted provider. The provider’s terms, conditions and policies apply. Please return to AARP.org to learn more about other benefits. Your email address is now confirmed. You'll start receiving the latest news, benefits, events, and programs related to AARP's mission to empower people to choose how they live as they age. You can also by updating your account at anytime. You will be asked to register or log in. Cancel Offer Details Disclosures