City Council Member Hands Out 300 Backpacks to Students

Atlanta City Council subordinate Andre Dickens presented a people of 4th graders astatine Barack and Michelle Obama Academy with marque caller backpacks Thursday afternoon.

The bags were stocked with schoolhouse supplies, hygiene products and snacks. Councilman Dickens partnered with Atlanta Public Schools to donate 300 backpacks to the school.

The donation was made imaginable done the metropolis council-APS task unit that Dickens created portion successful office.

Dickens and his squad wanted to bash a backpack giveaway successful the mediate of the schoolhouse twelvemonth to guarantee that kids person the supplies they request passim the entirety of the year.

“Everybody gives [students] backpacks astatine the opening of the schoolhouse year, but astir 3 oregon 4 months in, those backpacks commencement getting dirty,” Dickens said.

One of Dickens’ staffers besides encouraged the 4th graders to usage their caller notebooks to diary and prosecute their ain originative projects extracurricular of school. Dickens’ adjacent shared with the people that helium is successful the process of penning his ain publication and told the students they could bash the same.

The bulk of the backpacks volition beryllium donated to students experiencing lodging displacement.Community organizations Love Beyond Walls and Emmaus House partnered with the territory and metropolis assembly to enactment the backpack organisation effort.