Last year with United Way leading the project, more than 1000 area children in need returned to school with brand new backpacks and supplies. This year the need is even greater so that area schools and families have asked for assistance with backpacks and school supplies for more than 1100 children.
In the photo below you’ll see Colin Patey (our CEO) and I standing beside an impressive CKHA collection of backpacks and supplies that included more than 30 kg of lined paper and notebooks, 25 boxes of coloured pencils, 30 boxes of crayons, 10 math sets, rulers, and packages of pens, markers, erasers, pencil sharpeners, duo-tang folders, rulers, liquid glue, binders, glue sticks, pencils and highlighters.
More than $675 dollars in cash donations and enough supplies were collected to purchase and fill 90 brand new backpacks! These items and the money donated by our CKHA family will make a positive impact on many children in our area communities including Wallaceburg, Tilbury (Merlin & Wheatley), Ridgetown, Blenheim, Dresden, Thamesville, Bothwell and Chatham.
I am so proud to say that we are ‘caring people, caring for people’ both in our hospital and in our area communities. Thanks for stepping up and making a difference!
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