United Way Presents Check to APW Backpack Program

by Submitted article | October 15, 2016 4:45 pm

PARISH – The United Way of Greater Oswego County presented a check for $450 along with 100 backpacks to the Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Backpack Program in the district.

Pictured at the check presentation, from left: Kathy Ross, co-coordinator of the backpack program at APW; Patrick Dewine, Executive Director of the United Way of Greater Oswego County; Michelle Dye, co-coordinator of the backpack program at APW; and Nick Lee, APW backpack program volunteer.
Pictured at the check presentation, from left: Kathy Ross, co-coordinator of the backpack program at APW; Patrick Dewine, Executive Director of the United Way of Greater Oswego County; Michelle Dye, co-coordinator of the backpack program at APW; and Nick Lee, APW backpack program volunteer.

The backpack program was initiated to provide food to students and their families who have been identified as at risk of hunger over the weekend and breaks, when school breakfasts and lunches are not available to them.

Nutritious, easy to prepare meals and snacks are sent home in anonymous backpacks so as not to cause any embarrassment to the student in need.

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