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Help Kids in Your Community Go Back to School!

Did you know that 45,000 children in the Fairfax County Public school system are food insecure? The prospect of purchasing school supplies is stressful for their families when they don't know how they will put food on the table each night. Fairfax-based charity Our Daily Bread (ODB) is seeking volunteers from the community to donate funds, backpacks and calculators to assist needy children who attend schools in the Fairfax County area as part of its 2013 Collect for Kids Back to School Program, with a goal of providing supplies for 2,000 school children in the Fairfax High School and J.E.B. Stuart High School pyramids. Through a partnership with Fairfax County’s Collect for Kids Program, the organization can purchase all the necessary supplies for $15 or less per student. Financial donations may be made through Our Daily Bread’s web site, www.ODBFairfax.org. Backpacks and calculators may be delivered to ODB’s offices at 4080 Chain Bridge Road, 2nd Floor, Fairfax, VA 22030, Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. through August 12. For information, contact 703-273-8829 or holiday@ODBFairfax.org.

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