Help Westchester's Homeless Kids While Back-to-School Shopping

Written by Wendy Ann Mitchell

Rye’s Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry, a volunteer organization, provides dozens of homeless children in Westchester County with free backpacks filled with school supplies and they are in need of donations.

Helping Hands for the Homeless and Hungry is organizing a collection to help needy children get ready for the fall school year with back to school supplies.

Save the date for their 2014 “Mission Backpack”

~Monday, August 18: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

~Tuesday, August 19: 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Donations needed are as follows:

~Gift cards of $25: This will provide a backpack filled with a scientific calculator, notebooks, binders, pencils and index cards

~Gift cards of $50: This will cover the cost of art supplies for 20 children, drawing paper, crayons and glue sticks

~Gift cards of $75: This will buy eight scientific calculators

~Gift cards of $100: This will provide a family of 4 children with school ready backpacks

Please send donations and gift cards to:

Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry, Inc.

P.O. Box 982

Rye, NY 10580

For more information, email HelpingHandsRye@gmail.com

About Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry:

Helping Hands purchases and donates food, clothing, school supplies and makes cash grants to organizations for distribution to those in need.

For over 25 years, Helping Hands has partnered with dozens of social service agencies and churches who are on the front line providing for the basic needs of our neighbors. Our support of Grace Church Community Center, Open Arms, Don Bosco Center, HOPE House, The Sharing Community, Westhelp, WestHab, Holy Rosary, Shepard’s Flock and others, has become a very efficient way to touch the lives of our neighbors in need.

Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry, Inc. is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization

Photo credit: Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry