ASAP’s Lynn Elfe is coordinating\u00a0a Supply our Students Backpack Drive. \u00a0A box is set up outside the ASAP offices on the ground floor of Laffin.<\/p>\n
The Supply Our Students Backpack Drive is hosted by the Long Island Coalition for the Homeless (LICH). Each year, \u00a0thousands of backpacks \u00a0are filled with school supplies collected through this drive. The backpacks are distributed through a network of homeless shelters in late August. Last summer, more than 3,000 backpacks were distributed to kids in need on Long Island. With your help, even more backpacks can be distributed this year.<\/p>\n
Here’s a list of suggested donations:\u00a0School Supply List LIHC<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n All of those supplies are sorted and packed during the \u201cBack Pack Pirates Summer Festival<\/a>,<\/strong>\u201d \u00a0a one-day summer camp experience for up to 450 children from homeless shelters.\u00a0 In addition to an incredible camp experience and brand new backpacks, children are provided with new school clothing and shoes. Also collected are bathing suits and towels so kids attending the event can participate in water activities. Visit this\u00a0website<\/a> <\/strong>to watch the New 12 feature of Back Pack Pirates from 2015.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>About LICH:| ASAP’s Lynn Elfe is coordinating\u00a0a Supply our Students Backpack Drive. \u00a0A box is set up outside the ASAP offices on the ground floor of Laffin. The Supply Our Students Backpack Drive is hosted by the Long Island Coalition for the Homeless (LICH). Each year, \u00a0thousands of backpacks \u00a0are filled with school supplies collected through this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5632"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5815,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5632\/revisions\/5815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.farmingdale.edu\/sites\/campus-times\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>The Long Island Coalition for the Homeless is a 501c3 non-profit organization based in Amityville. Its mission is to eliminate homelessness on Long Island and improve the lives of Long Islanders who are homeless or at risk of homelessness.\u00a0Please direct all questions to Greta Guarton at 631-464-4314 x 113 or <\/em><\/strong>gguarton@addressthehomeless.org<\/em><\/strong><\/a> or Ksusha Cascio at 631-464-4314 x 123 or <\/em><\/strong>kcascio@addressthehomeless.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"