More than 1,000 low-income and homeless children will have backpacks filled with school supplies, thanks to a month-long “Stuff the Bus” community fundraising effort.
The project collected school supplies and backpacks for low-income children across the county. The summer campaign was sponsored by the United Way of San Benito County and the county office of education.
This year, 1,450 backpacks were filled with supplies, wrote Krystal Lomanto, the county superintendent of schools, in an email to the Free Lance.
The campaign ran from July 1 through Aug. 8, when volunteers gathered at the Target parking lot at 1790 Airline Highway in Hollister to “stuff the bus” with donated supplies. The county office of education will distribute the backpacks to school children.
Last year, the event filled more than 700 backpacks with school supplies and this summer the goal was to fill 1,000, according to information about the event shared with the Free Lance in July.
