Riverhead PSEG Worker Helps Bring School Supplies To Kids In Need

RIVERHEAD, NY — A PSEG Long Island employee from Riverhead helped make going back to school a little bit easier for children in need.

Steve Marangoni helped pack 374 backpacks full of school supplies recently for children who might otherwise do without, at the company’s Melville office. The school supplies were donated by PSEG Long Island employees all summer long as part of the company’s Outreach Council’s annual back-to-school drive, PSEG said.

Thousands of boxes of crayons, pencils and pens, notebooks and binders, rulers, scissors, and other essentials were collected by the company’s Employee Outreach Council. In assembly line fashion, the various back-to-school items were packed into nearly 400 PSEG Long Island backpacks and distributed by employee volunteers to a variety of agencies and organizations across Long Island and the Rockaways for area school children, a release said.

The PSEG Long Island Employee Outreach Council’s mission is to coordinate support for the specific needs of the communities it serves in order to build and strengthen connections between PSEG Long Island, its employees and its neighbors, the release said.

Dozens of PSEG Long Island employees also helped several local organizations distribute donated school supplies to children at various events throughout Long Island and the Rockaways hosted by Family Service League, Long Island Against Domestic Violence, New Hour, the Salvation Army and the United Way.

“So many of our employees raise their hand for these back-to-school events and it’s so heartwarming,” said Suzanne Brienza, PSEG Long Island director of customer experience and utility marketing. “Supporting children in the communities we serve is another way we give back to our customers.”