When you’re shopping this week, please consider buying a a backpack and supplies (notebook, pens, pencils, markers, etc.) for a child whose home was destroyed by Hurricane Sandy.

When children in New York’s Rockaways neighborhood lost their homes and belongings, they lost their school supplies.  Backpacks, school supplies, and warm socks, mittens, and winter hats are needed.

If you order from Amazon.com, please send the backpack & supplies to:
Church of St Luke & St Matthew
520 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11238.

Or buy local and deliver the backpack and supplies in the box in the foyer at First Unitarian Society, 1326 Washington St, across from the Newton police station.

If you send a backpack via Amazon.com, please send an email to Margaret Z., volunteer coordinator, so she keep track of how many backpacks are sent and tell OccupySandy how many backpacks are coming!