New Haven Independent

How You Can Help: Backpacks for Kids

by Melissa Bailey | August 17, 2006 11:13 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

School is weeks away and youngsters at New Haven Home Recovery’s emergency shelters and supportive housing units need supplies, just like the kids at Q Terrace. To help, donate a backpack — stocked with an age-appropriate array of pencil boxes, notebooks or crayons — for one of the nonprofit’s 100 families at risk for homelessness. Bring donations to NHHR’s office at 153 East St., 3rd floor, Mon. - Fri., 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Toiletries, linens and children’s clothes are also always needed (though women’s clothes are well-stocked, notes operations manager Sara Hammerbacher (pictured)). Click here for more info, or call 492-4866 ext 10. M.B.

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