Office Depot believes that every child deserves to start the school year with a backpack and essential school supplies. Not all families can afford the items needed to kick the school year off. The Office Depot Foundation and its National Backpack Program are making a difference to change this. Over the past 12 years they have provided more than 2.9 million backpacks to children all around the world.
This year is the 13th anniversary of the National Backpack Program and the Office Depot Foundation will donate 300,000 backpacks with essential school supplies to deserving children in all 50 states, Peurto Rico and internationally. By the end of 2013 they will have donated more than 3 million backpacks and sackpacks since the program started in 2001.
We were sent a sample of the sackpacks that are given to children in need of school supplies as a thank-you for this write up. This program is close to our heart as we also try to help children in need of school supplies as we can each year. It’s the little things in life that can make all the difference.
Inside our sackpack was a zippered pouch containing a pen, pencil, pencil sharpener, eraser, 6″ ruler and four crayons.
For more information about the program visit: http://www.officedepotfoundation.org/
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