Breakfast Rotary Club Helps Moorestown Students in Need

Students in need in Moorestown are more prepared for school now than they were 24 hours ago.

The Moorestown Breakfast Rotary Club hosted an event in which 160 backpacks were filled with school supplies, from folders to pencils, for Moorestown students in need in grades K-12.

The backpacks were delivered to Moorestown Ecumenical Neighborhood Development (MEND) and the school district during the event on Wednesday. Those groups will then deliver the backpacks to those in need.

The total value of the supplies is $7,000, and every member of the Rotary Breakfast Club participated.

Moorestown Board of Education members, including President Kathy Goldenberg and Board Member Brandon Pugh, participated in the event.

“This is a great event for the students, and will make their first day at school wonderful,” Moorestown Breakfast Rotary Club President Scott Aschoff said.

“I am truly appreciative of the Breakfast Rotary’s generosity in coordinating this project every year because I know it means a lot to the Moorestown students who receive the backpacks,” Pugh said in an email Thursday morning.

The program has been in place for over a decade, according to Aschoff.

The attached images were provided by Brandon Pugh:

Photo No. 1: All members of the Moorestown Breakfast Rotary Club participated in the project.

Photo No. 2: (left to right) are Grant Leuleitte - Social Director, Ben Stammen - Secretary, Jim Gertie - Treasurer, Brandon Pugh - President, Burlington County School Assoc & Board Member - Moorestown BOE, Scott Aschoff - President Rotary, Kathy Goldenberg, President Moorestown Board of Education.