BACK PACK DRIVE & SCHOOL SUPPLIES

Back Pack Drive &  School Supplies
Now accepting donations through August 21st
 
This is the 12th year for our annual Backpack and School Supply Drive. Education can tremendously help children overcome poverty. But what if you didn’t have the basic tools necessary to succeed?  Children will be starting a new school year in the next months and many will be unprepared. Your generous donations in the past have benefited hundreds of children who otherwise would have had little access to new supplies. Thank you for helping these children be prepared to learn and achieve!
 
The donations collected will benefit children in our area through SVDP, Saint Cecilia in Los Angeles, Our Lady of Victory in Compton and His Nesting Place in Long Beach.
 
We are asking for donations of paper, copy paper, pens, folders, and pencil boxes/pouches, Target/Walmart gift cards, backpacks, pencils, crayons, markers, wide/college ruled paper, rulers, colored pencils, sharpeners, erasers, hand sanitizer, hand wipes, tissues, glue, spiral notebooks, glue sticks and construction paper. Gently used backpacks can also be donated to be given out for our homeless brothers and sisters being served by SVDP.
 
Your donations can be delivered to the parish office. Please place gift card donations in an envelope labeled “School Supply Drive” which can be placed in the collection basket or also brought to the parish office.  Our drive will run until August 21st. Please call Brenda Luna at ext. 137 or email brenda@hnmparish.org if you have any questions.

Thank you for continuing to open your heart to others in need.