Page 5 - Operation Backpack News Today

YMCA Operation Backpack runs through Aug. 15

Parents are facing an $890 back to school supply bill. These organizations are helping by providing free school supplies to families.

Parents are facing an $890 back to school supply bill. These organizations are helping by providing free school supplies to families.

Parents are facing an $890 back to school supply bill. These organizations are helping by providing free school supplies to families.

Parents are facing an $890 back to school supply bill. These organizations are helping by providing free school supplies to families.

Parents are facing an $890 back to school supply bill. These organizations are helping by providing free school supplies to families.

NEWBURYOPRT — Congregation Ahavas Achim continues its commitment to partner with greater Newburyport’s community organizations by supporting their outreach programs.

Operation Homefront gave out more than 300 backpacks full of school supplies Wednesday afternoon to families at Whiteman Air Force Base.

For the tens of thousands of parents raising children in homeless and domestic violence shelters, the cost of school supplies is surely weighing heavily on

Faith-based nonprofit Volunteers of America and its Chesapeake & Carolinas chapter has conducted Operation Backpack for the past 14 years to collect new school supplies like electronics, writing materials, book bags and, in some cases, school uniforms.