School Supplies

Providing School Supplies for the Children Without

October 20, 2013

School SuppliesSupport is Needed Throughout the Year.

It is difficult for students to do well in school when they are faced with the worry of having enough school supplies to get them through the school year. Americans Helping Americans® provided 1,900 backpacks to five organizations in Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia and Georgia filled with paper, pencils, crayons, sharpeners, scissors, notebooks, erasers, rulers and glue.

Did you know that 12% of children in Appalachia never finish their first year of high school?

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