The Neighborhood

For most students, part of the excitement of an upcoming school year involves new backpacks and school supplies. After getting the lists from schools and teachers, they shop at the stores where bright new colors, styles and varieties are prominently displayed. The appropriate items purchased are dutifully packed into the new backpacks and carried into class for the adventure of another school year with friends and teachers. For thousands of homeless and at-risk students in Austin ISD, this ritual can be a matter of dread rather than excitement, just a reminder of how out of touch their lives have become. The list of needed supplies may be yet another ominous indication of the impediments they face for a positive social and meaningful educational experience in school.
How will they possibly obtain what is needed? Will the supplies be provided in a manner of public charity that reveals their status to all and results in embarrassment and humiliation?
The Neighborhood along with Austin ISD has carried out a program to address this seminal aspect of the school experience, providing backpacks and school supplies which are disseminated in connection with AISD’s “Back to School Bash” for children in need. The Neighborhood is able to purchase these items in bulk quantities at deep discounts and package and distribute them with volunteer labor.
On August 3rd, 2019 The Neighborhood will be handing out backpacks and supplies to over 4,500 at-risk children that live in our school district.

Please consider making a donation to the Neighborhood to help these kids.

All of your money (100%) goes directly for backpacks for the kids, since The Neighborhood is an all-volunteer organization with no paid staff or overhead. Your donation helps give these young kids a chance for a positive experience from the very first day of a new school year.

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