| Our mission | Backpack Buddies strives to prepare underprivileged Virginia children for school, as well as relieve their parents and teachers of a heavy financial burden, by providing backpacks filled with school supplies to as many students as possible at the start of each school year. |
|---|
Backpack Buddies
| About us | Over the past decade, Backpack Buddies has donated more than 4,300 backpacks filled with school supplies to Virginia students (preK-12th grade) in need. Backpack Buddies has grown from just 61 filled backpacks donated in 2010 to more than 820 filled backpacks donated in 2020. Backpack Buddies enlists the help of dozens of youth and adult volunteers to help raise money, collect donations, spread the word, and fill backpacks with school supplies every year. The completely packed backpacks are then distributed at the end of each summer to kids in need at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Virginia, the Charlottesville International Rescue Committee (IRC), International Neighbors, United Methodist Family Services (UMFS), ReadyKids, and the Southwood Mobile Home Park, as well as to various Virginia public schools and individual/group requests. |
|---|
{{ reviewsOverall }} / 10
Users
(0 votes)
Criterion 10
