Operation Backpack 2013 - atlbackpacks.com

Children living at or below the poverty line will find it difficult to get enough to eat this summer as their parents struggle to keep the lights on and make rent – they simply cannot afford to buy backpacks and school supplies. Atlanta is one of the hardest financial places for children to grow up.

According to the Metro Atlanta Task Force:

·         The fastest growing group of homeless people is children under 9 years of age.

·         Atlanta is the poorest city in the U.S. for children - more children in Atlanta live in poverty than in any other city.

·         48% of all the children in Atlanta in poverty live in families with annual incomes of less than $15,000 a year.

·         For children under age 6 living in female-headed families with no spouse present, the poverty rate is 58.8%.

·         Children ages 6-17 living in female-headed families with no spouse present have a poverty rate of 44.9%.

·         Current welfare (TANF) benefits are $282 a month for a woman with two children. Could you find an apartment to rent on $282 a month?

·         Fewer than 20% of those women and children living on welfare get any kind of housing subsidy.

·         98 million children in the U.S. have no health insurance. Eight million of those children without health insurance live in working families.

Its not hard to see and know the need. Help us help kids as they go back to school. Change the schools, change the neighborhood! 

Operation Backpack is a group effort in the Edgewood/Kirkwood neighborhoods. Advent Church and Resonate Church Atlanta, along with Edgewood Court Apartments, are working together to make sure that there are no kids in the area that will start school without their supplies. Join with us to care for and love these kids in our neighborhood.

For a mere $20, we can supply a student with everything he or she needs for the start of the school year. Partner with us today! The goal for this year’s Operation Backpack is to provide over 110 children in need with fully-supplied backpacks to start the school year. Your support will purchase backpacks and supplies for these children living in poverty. It costs $20 for each backpack with supplies including backpacks, notebooks, folders, paper, markers, pens, pencils, pencil cases, dictionaries, scissors, erasers, and much more. With your support, we will try to fill all the requests for backpacks from the apartment complex.

We invite you to participate in the Back 2 School celebration and distribution of the backpacks on August 4th, from 2pm to 4pm at the Edgewood Court Apartments Community Center.

For more information, please visit atlbackpacks.com and consider making a donation.

All proceeds given will go exclusively towards school supplies for children.