11th Annual School Supply Drive Aug. 18 in Louisville
Friday, August 10, 2012
As the summer comes to an end and students get ready to return to school, thousands of children in Louisville will be able to head back to school again with new supplies and backpacks.
For the 11th year, our employee volunteers are partnering with nonprofit organizations, the Lord’s Kitchen and Feed the City, to assemble 3,200 backpacks filled with basic school supplies.
The Louisville distribution is part of our company's larger school supply drive across the our statewide service territory.
In total, more than 14,000 filled backpacks will be distributed during back-to-school events organized by employee volunteers benefiting students in Louisville, Lexington, Fern Creek, Mt. Washington, Harrodsburg and Bullitt, Meade, Muhlenberg, Lyon, Ohio, Carroll and Muhlenberg Counties.
Update:
News station WDRB helped promote our back-to-school effort to the public in the news story below:
For the 11th year, our employee volunteers are partnering with nonprofit organizations, the Lord’s Kitchen and Feed the City, to assemble 3,200 backpacks filled with basic school supplies.
The backpacks will be filled with paper, pocket folders, glue sticks, pencils and other supplies and distributed on Saturday, Aug. 18, from a designated area in the parking lot of our Broadway Office Complex, located at 820 W. Broadway, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. -- or while supplies last.
Supplies will be distributed one backpack per child on a first-come, first-served basis. Children must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Several years ago, in our first year of the effort, we partnered with The Lord’s Kitchen to deliver 300 school supply kits for children in five Louisville neighborhoods.
This year, 3,200 filled backpacks will be distributed our facility on Broadway and an additional 800 backpacks will be made available at various Jefferson County Public School resource centers.
The Louisville distribution is part of our company's larger school supply drive across the our statewide service territory.
In total, more than 14,000 filled backpacks will be distributed during back-to-school events organized by employee volunteers benefiting students in Louisville, Lexington, Fern Creek, Mt. Washington, Harrodsburg and Bullitt, Meade, Muhlenberg, Lyon, Ohio, Carroll and Muhlenberg Counties.
Update:
News station WDRB helped promote our back-to-school effort to the public in the news story below:
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