Backpack Beginnings serves so many students in the Guilford County Schools. In addition to programs for providing food, school supplies, and hygiene products, Backpack Beginnings also maintains a clothing pantry. The clothing pantry, photographed above, provides clothing for all age groups from infants to high school. In anticipation of spring, as you are going through closets, if you have any gently used clothing that your children have outgrown, especially tennis shoes and light jackets, consider donating them to the Clothing Pantry for this very worthy cause.
If you have questions, you can email [email protected]. It is also quite possible that the social worker at the public school near you can help with donations. Often, school social workers are the contact person to help school children in need. The above photo was taken on a quiet Saturday. Weekdays are a different story when volunteers are sorting and hanging donations at their warehouse off Wendover Avenue.
That sounds quite worthwhile.
Posted by: William Kendall | Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 11:35 AM
This is a wonderful project and sad, too, that such a thing is needed in this rich country. But we still got wars to fight so the military budget must be increased and money for kiddos just keeps getting less and less!
Posted by: Lowell | Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 07:35 PM