XALAPA Launches 7th Annual School Supplies Collection Campaign for Students in Need

XALAPA, LOOKING. – For the seventh consecutive year, the Transition to Work Support and Street Children (AC mattress), will accumulate School Supplies to provide them students in vulnerable situations. The civil society that serves Children working y in a street setting They try to collect materials to support children in vulnerable situations, with the intention of keeping them from dropping out of school.

Attorney of the communications district of matexplained Josefina Castrejón, although many parents want their sons and daughters to continue studying, it is not always the resources to buy what is necessary for children to attend school.

Therefore, they started it material collection campaigntherefore They asked the public for help to donate notebooks, pencils, pens, markers, paints, rulers, geometry games, dictionaries and backpacksbe able to consistently deliver what is desired in the school supply lists.

“We are very happy now to be doing the seventh campaign where we supported more than 1,155 children in these 6 years from all levels of education. We have supported 48% of boys and 52% of girls at all levels of education.

“It was a joint effort with Mataraca, with institutions, with companies, with families, with people who are close and have that sympathy with Mataraca and with the boys and girls that we send bet, if they take the school as a safe tool. , their living conditions are going to improve,” he said at a press conference.

In 2023, AC mattress 401 collected school packswhich was given to 216 primary school children, 123 high school children, 52 high school students, and 10 university students, and this year they are trying to support a larger number of students.

The seventh campaign, he said, started on April 16 and will end on August 31, “about four months to collect these tools necessary, put the packages together, so we can send them to the boys and girls in a personal way.”

mat aim for at least 450 total packages of School Supplies with backpacks if possible, to be able to reach boys and girls, adolescents and young people, so that they can continue school.

The civil society accompanying children and adolescents who work in the exercise of their rights, encouraging them through our various programs: Education, Care for families, Working and street children, Strengthening institutions.

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