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title: "School supplies for every child"
description: "A full backpack for 1,600 children starting the school year without the basics."
url: "https://givo-astro.pages.dev/causes/school-supplies-for-every-child/"
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# School supplies for every child

> A full backpack for 1,600 children starting the school year without the basics.

- Goal: $40,000
- Raised: $26,450 (66 %)
- Donors: 412
- Time left: 77 days left

Every September, families in the district make the same hard choice: rent and food first, school supplies later. Teachers tell us that one child in five starts the year without a notebook, a pen, or a bag to carry them in.

## Why it matters

A child who arrives without supplies spends the first weeks borrowing, waiting, and falling behind. Small gaps in the first month turn into lost confidence by winter. Teachers end up buying pencils out of their own pay, and the children who need the most help notice that they are different.

When every child in a class has the same backpack, nobody is singled out. Teachers can start teaching on day one.

We buy in bulk from local suppliers, so each gift goes further than it would at the shop. Volunteers pack the bags, and schools hand them out quietly in the first week, so families never have to ask.

Every school receives a short report at the end of the term: how many backpacks went out, which items ran short, and what the teachers want more of next year.

## How your gift helps

- $25: school supplies for one child
- $60: a uniform and shoes for one child
- $150: a term of after-school tutoring