Generosity brings in school supplies
Staples manager Tracy General and Frances Krusekopf from SD 62 are grateful to the West Shore community for donating more than $12,000 for school supplies.
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Updated: October 20, 2009 2:00 PM
Lockers are getting loaded on the West Shore.
Thanks to some very generous Langford shoppers, Staples Business Depot managed to collect more than $12,000 to help purchase school supplies for kids in the Sooke School District.
The money was distributed to 16 schools within SD 62 including elementary, middle, secondary and alternative schools.
SD 62 used the social services index and school demographics to determine where the biggest needs were, said Frances Krusekopf, SD 62 district community Learning Includes Nutrition and Knowledge (LINK) co-ordinator.
Staples provided SD 62 with gift cards to the store to purchase the needed supplies. “The gift cards can be put towards whatever a specific school or student needs,” Krusekopf said.
Schools have used the money to purchase supplies such as paper, binders, pens, pencils and computer printers for classrooms.
Of the money collected $2,600 will be used to purchase healthy snacks for the Aboriginal Education Nutrition Program in middle and secondary schools, Krusekopf said.
The money was collected through Staples’ Load the Locker campaign from mid-July to early September. The store’s collection for the campaign more than doubled the $5,700 collected last year said Tracy General, store manager.
“Maybe because of the economy people who had (more) could give more,” General suggested.
Another incentive that helped with donations is money collected on the West Shore stayed in the community, General said.
“The idea for the whole program is that kids don’t go without what they need,” she said. “Children are our future, we need to make sure they get through school.”
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