WANTED: SOME GOOD STRONG BACKS
To Deliver School Supplies to Chicago Public Schools
Thursday, AUG 19 10am-3pm
and/or
Friday, AUG 20 10am-3pm
Dick Flesher of Schools Count has been collecting new and slightly used school supplies from over 20 area elementary, junior high and high schools. These supplies will be distributed to the Chicago public schools most in need of assistance and serves as part of the Schools Count “Go Green” program. In an effort to do their part to ‘save the planet’, these ‘nearly new’ supplies will continue to serve students in the Chicago area rather than crowd our landfills.
Where does Global Hope come in? We are looking for 3-4 volunteers for each of the two days to deliver 2281 binders, 3396 notebooks, 5438 folders, 1556 packets of loose leaf paper, 8500 pens and pens, 3000 colored pencils, 7000 colored markers, many thousand note cards, boxes of glue, boxes of crayons, backpacks, composition books, paint sets, scissors, rulers, graphing paper and more!! How’s that for putting “goodwill in motion”! These supplies will already be packed in boxes weighing between 10-20 lbs.
If you are interested in helping with delivery, please let us know as soon as possible so we can inform Dick Flesher. Maps will be provided in order to follow supply trucks to each destination. Also, due to the nature of this project, please leave “underage” volunteers at home.
Please contact Anna at aalbrecht117@comcast.net to volunteer and/or for more info.
And know that because of you, thousands of Chicago area public school students will be equipped with the supplies necessary for better learning.
