Just another week to go to fill backpacks! If you would like to choose an item on the Amamzon wishlist, please click here!
CLICK HERE!We will fill the bags for you! We already have some supplies and we will put all the items needed to fill tha bag. If you just send one backpack, that's ok! We will fill it!
The 2024 Backpacks 101 Project is underway!! Sign up to fill backpacks for children in need in Toronto, including the Native Family and Child Services of Toronto.
Our goal this year is to fill 140 backpacks. Thank you to JAM Direct for, once again, supporting our initiative!
How can you help? It's easy, choose a gender/grade range, check the contents list. Go shopping! Once you have filled your backpack, you can drop it off at 3 Cardigan Road between August 13th and August 15th, 2024. High School students receive 2 hours of volunteer service per backpack.
Live out of town and still want to donate? Choose one or more items and we will fill the backpacks for you!
https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/297YMLXJW51QS?ref_=wl_shareTell a friend!
Thank you for supporting over 17 years of giving and over 1000 backpacks filled!
Sign up have begun!! We have 64 more backpacks to be donated!!
This year, we have 2 ways to support the program.
1. Use the Signup Genius to pick your age and gender. Fill a backpack using the backpack contents list on the blog. Drop off the backpack between August 14th and 16th at 3 Cardigan Road. High schoolers get 2 hours of volunteer hours per backpack. Click on the Sign Up Genius icon.
2. Purchase items for our Amazon Wishlist.
https://www.amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2K2PTJZ1K4XFJ?ref_=wl_share
Any questions? Need to drop off on an alternate date? Send me an email at backpacks101project@gmail.com
Each backpack makes a difference for a child's first day at school!
Thank you !
Monique
The Backpacks project is ready to collect filled backpacks for underserved children in our community. Since 2007, we have been filling backpacks for children in shelters in West Toronto. This year, the backpacks will go to Women's Habitat, Ernestine's Women's Shelter as well the Native Child and Family Services of Toronto.
Once again JAMdirect will be filling and donating backpacks to help us reach our goal.
We will only be accepting filled backpacks. High School students will be able to receive 2 volunteer hours per backpack that they fill. In order to fill a backpack, you can sign up on the Sign up Genius form to choose your age category and gender.
Drop off will be from August 14th to August 16th.
Here we go again! Another year of backpacks is upon us! This year the backpacks will be going to Women's Habitat, Ernestine's Women's Shelter and the Native Child and Family Services of Toronto.
Once again JAMdirect will be filling and donating backpacks to help us reach our goal.
This year, we will only be accepting filled backpacks. High School students will be able to receive 2 volunteer hours per backpack that they fill. In order to fill a backpack, you can sign up on the Sign up Genius form to choose your age category and gender. Drop off will be from August 15th to August 17th.
Sign up here to fill a backpack!
Thank you for supporting our program!
The Backpacks 101 Project is back for 2021! Last year amid the pandemic, we were able to collect and fill 100 backpacks. This year, to honour the lives of Indigenous children, our goal is to fill 215 backpacks. We are adding 2 Indigenous Centres to the list of shelters that we have been donating to for many years. The 2 centres that support Indigenous women and children are Anduhyaun Inc. and The Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto. We are also donating to Women's Habitat, Ernestine's Women's Shelter and Youth Without Shelter.
There are several ways you can support the project.
1. Make a monetary donation
2. Fill a backpack using the SignupGenius. Please deliver the backpacks to 3 Cardigan Road between August 9th.-12th
3. Share with a friend on Social Media.
4. Organize a fundraiser with your Book Club, friends, classmates.
Thanks go to SCOTIABANK and JAM Direct for their generous support of the Backpacks 101 Project!
