Faculty buses are rumbling again to life and college grounds will swell with college students sporting new backpacks stuffed with new provides. A minimum of that’s the intention of greater than 500 Seattle Occasions readers who thus far have contributed to The Occasions editorial board’s annual college provides drive.
The price of these provides, starting from backpacks to calculators, can add up quick, swamping the household budgets of these in want. Slightly further assist can ease the burden on dad and mom and buoy a younger scholar’s confidence.
Our beneficiant readers have contributed greater than $120,000 for the trigger thus far. The drive runs yearly from the Fourth of July by means of Labor Day. Each cent goes to our three companions dedicated to youth success: YWCA Seattle-King-Snohomish, Seattle/King County Coalition on Homelessness and Hopelink. They distribute proceeds within the type of present playing cards and backpacks full of notebooks, paper, pencils and different provides to assist studying.
Thanks, expensive readers, to your dedication to serving to so a lot of our youngest neighbors get the varsity yr off to begin with the instruments to succeed.
How you can assist: The Faculty Provides Drive is a part of The Seattle Occasions Fund For These in Want, a registered 501(c)(3) Charitable Group. The simplest method to donate is on-line at st.news/schoolsupplies. Checks can also be despatched to: The Seattle Occasions Faculty Provides Drive, P.O. Field C-11025, Seattle, WA 98111; e mail inquiries to ffn@seattletimes.com.
