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Group seeks help filling up book bags

With schools opening Aug. 29, a group that distributes school supplies to needy children in Charles County has more than 1,000 book bags to fill — and its shelves are mostly empty.

The Charles County Children’s Aid Society is seeking donations of supplies for students in kindergarten through 12th grade, including clothes, notebook paper, crayons, protractors, rulers, index cards, liquid glue, glue sticks, tissues and book covers, said Pat Santee, administrative assistant for the organization.

Every year, the organization struggles to fill book bags with supplies, Executive Director Maria Bryan said.

“The numbers never really backslide,” she said.

The nonprofit group was founded in 1936 by area women who saw a need to help families with children who were suffering from the effects of the Great Depression. The organization is a source of direct and immediate assistance to children and families.

The group began distributing school supplies about 22 years ago, Bryan said.

Through a grant received from the Chaney Foundation, the society this year bought 1,300 book bags — slings, messenger bags, backpacks featuring popular cartoon characters — from Bags in Bulk, a New York-based distributor. Children’s Aid paid about $7,000 for the bags. The Chaney Foundation assists nonprofits in Southern Maryland and the Eastern Shore with an emphasis on children’s advocacy and services, health care, the environment, culture and historic preservation.

Children’s Aid hopes to supply 1,300 students this year — a mission it can’t accomplish without the help of donors, Bryan said.

“Our local, less fortunate families cannot afford to buy their kids the supplies they need to begin school nor can they afford to buy them school clothes,” Bryan wrote in an e-mail.

For the first time in recent memory, the organization is in need of back-to-school clothes for its clients, Santee said. She suggested that donors could give “anything that a child would wear.”

Although in the past the organization asked for new clothes, this year it will take gently used items, except for underwear, which must be new and in a package.

“I think the economy is still affecting so many people,” she said of the lack of clothing donations this year. “Maybe they are selling items in a yard sale or holding on to stuff.

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