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December 12 , 2005
School
supply collection boxes set up around campus through Dec. 19
BY eric
rangus
Emory’s Northwest Community Outreach Partnership
Center (COPC) is collecting new or gently used school supplies this
holiday season
for children in Northwest Atlanta.
“Many Atlanta families cannot afford school supplies, much less Christmas
gifts, for their children,” said Nicole Taylor, Northwest Atlanta COPC
coordinator, who also lives in the community. “These families are working
hard to move beyond public housing and poverty. Yet the quality of their children’s
education—fundamental for their success—is seriously limited by the
lack of simple resources we take for granted.”
Initiated last year, the Gifts for Education Make a
Difference drive will collect school supplies until Dec. 19. Items
may be dropped
in collection boxes located
across campus. The supplies will be distributed to families in the Atlanta
Housing Authority’s affordable-housing communities of Bowen Homes and
Hollywood Court.
“The children are bright and eager to learn, and the teachers are unbelievably
dedicated,” said supply drive coordinator Mary Anne Lindskog, visiting
assistant professor of educational studies. “Their efforts deserve a ‘hand-up’ to
overcome the lack of basic materials like crayons, pens and pencils, markers,
construction paper, glue and so much more.”
A list of preferred items is posted on each donation
box. More than a dozen already have been placed in offices across
the Emory community.
Anyone interested
in
obtaining a donation box is encouraged to call Lindskog at 404-727-4793.
All the boxes will be collected on Dec. 20 for distribution
before Christmas.
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