300 Children Benefit From Mexico School Supply Distribution Event

August 24, 2017 Submitted article

MEXICO – Thanks to the generosity of community members and the Mexico Academy and Central School District Faculty Association, 301 Mexico students received brand new backpacks stuffed with necessary supplies to start the 2017-18 school year.

MACS faculty members, retirees and board of education members work together during the annual School Supply Giveaway to pack backpacks full of school supplies for 301 children before the start of the school year.
MACS faculty members, retirees and board of education members work together during the annual School Supply Giveaway to pack backpacks full of school supplies for 301 children before the start of the school year.

Donations of pencils, pens, notebooks, loose-leaf paper, highlighters, crayons, rulers, binders, folders and other school supplies filled backpacks for students in grades kindergarten through 12.

The annual giveaway combined items collected from the United Way of Greater Oswego County’s Stuff-a-Bus initiative and supplies purchased from the $3,500 MACS staff members raised from Jean Days during the 2016-17 school year.

During the distribution event, MACS staff members, retirees and members of the board of education worked together to fill the backpacks for children who were ecstatic to receive their school supplies.

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