Salvation Army fights inflation by giving 2,000 stuffed backpacks to Saskatoon students
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Tables stacked with carboard boxes full of school supplies and backpacks in every colour piled high inside the Bateman Crescent Salvation Army on Monday.
The Salvation Army is running its annual backpack distribution program to help Saskatoon families fight inflation this back-to-school season.
Tables stacked with cardboard boxes full of school supplies and backpacks in every colour piled high inside the Bateman Crescent Salvation Army on Monday.
“Each year we end up getting funders, donors that are interested in supporting the backpack program so all of the supplies were purchased through donations that we received here at the Salvation Army,” said Derek Kerr with the organization.
Two thousand backpacks will be given to Saskatoon students this year.
“Last year in 2022 we did 1,500 so we had some donors that stepped up to the plate and wanted to raise their donations this year so that we could increase the numbers of backpacks that we give out,” Kerr said. “Saskatoon is a very generous community.”
Kerr said the registration spots for the backpacks were filled in two days and the demand was nearly double the amount of supply the organization received.
“We try to make the ones for the secondary school students more relevant to them, so a little bit more detailed about what we put into the bags because we know it’s different grade levels and the needs and demands are different at that level of education,” Kerr said.
The backpacks include pencils, notebooks, sticky notes, pencil cases and all of the other things a student might need for back to school.
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