Assistance League’s Operation School Bell Chimes for Children!

Since 1994, Operation School Bell®, Assistance League’s® nationally acclaimed philanthropic program, has provided clothing to local elementary schoolchildren. Program member Pam Pitts reports that in 2022-23, 3,500 schoolchildren in 16 elementary schools in the Mount Diablo and Pittsburgh Unified School Districts will receive uniforms.

In recent weeks, program volunteers have labeled individual blue bags with each child’s name and classroom to facilitate distribution. Volunteers then filled each bag with one sweatshirt, three white collared polo shirts, two pairs of pants or skorts for girls (upon request), six pairs of socks, and six pairs of underwear. Several of these items had been added at the request of the students. School district representatives then transport the labeled and filled bags to designated elementary schools. This process will continue until early November.

The money invested in our most treasured resource, our children, amounts to $122,500, a mere $35 per child. As for the return, school attendance, campus citizenship and academic performance improve.

Operation School Bell Clothing Chairman Susan Angle reminds us that the above account is merely one facet of Operation School Bell. Please visit assistanceleague.org/diablo-valley to learn more.