COMMUNITY CONNECTION: Homeless Children Back-to-School Project - Deadline July 31st

Have you started purchasing back to school supplies for the school kids in your family?  While picking up supplies, please consider purchasing and donating some supplies for the homeless children at the Atlanta Day Shelter for Women and Children.  


Below is a list of school supply needs at the ADSWC, and they would like to receive the supplies by July 31st.  The ADSWC is currently accepting donations during the summer months from 8:30am - 3:30pm on Monday through Friday, and they are closed on the weekends until September.  


If you are unable to drop off supplies, you can safely make a monetary donation via their website - www.atlantadayshelter.org.  Also, if you have specific questions about this project contact the Director, Rev. Leslee Samuelson at 404.876.2894 x109.  


(See items below)


Please bring these donations in by July 31st (if possible) to the Atlanta Day Shelter for Women & Children located at 655 Ethel St. NW, Atlanta, GA 30318.

• Backpacks
• Notebook paper (narrow rule)
• Graph paper
• Protractors
• Calculators (TI –30xa or TI-89)
• Safety Compasses
• Construction paper
• Pocket dictionaries
• Pocket thesauruses
• Glue sticks
• No. 2 pencils (large pack)
• Pens – black and blue (erasable for elementary)
• Boxes of colored pencils
• Packs of washable markers
• Zipper pencil pouches
• Rulers
• Composition Books
• Subject Dividers (5 subject)
• one-subject spiral notebooks
• folders with pockets and prongs
• index cards
• boxes of tissue
• Blunt Scissors
• 3 Ring Binders (2-inch)
• Liquid hand soap or hand sanitizer
• Large pink erasers
• Elementary size uniform clothes (pants, shirts, skirts in navy, white, and khaki)
• Payless shoe store gift cards