Every year since 1991, the Kiwanis of Little Havana Foundation, in collaboration with the Kiwanis Club of Little Havana, has been distributing book bags and school supplies to children in free-lunch public elementary schools with a predominant Hispanic/Afro-American student body. These elementary schools are selected from a list provided by the Miami-Dade County Public School System.
The distribution reaches 5,000+ children throughout Miami-Dade County and it takes place during the first week of school. The book bags include all school supplies needed for the start of a child’s school year; i.e., pencils, notebooks, writing tablets, safety scissors, glue sticks, crayon, rulers, composition books, filler paper and portfolios. Corporations and individuals may contribute with matching funds and/or “adopt” a school, a specific grade level, a class or a number of children. The 2011 Back to School Program started on August 17th and finished on August 24th. Students from the following elementary schools and centers will receive school supplies: Camillus House; Monsignor Bryan Walsh Children's Village at Boystown; TCM Institute for Child and Family Health; San Juan Bosco Learning Center; Children's Home Society; San Juan Bosco Parish; Citrus Grove; Comstock; Auburndale; Orchard Villa; Thena Crowder and St. Mary's Cathedral School.
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