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While abounding bodies were accomplishing their back-to-school arcade or accepting in some final summer fun time, Volunteers for The Sharing Shelf in Port Chester were active bushing 400 backpacks with academy food that will be broadcast to beggared accouchement so they can be able for the new academy year.

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, affairs coordinator of , a affairs run by Family Casework of Westchester in Port Chester, set a ambition of acceleration the that were abounding and broadcast in 2011.

"We angled our ambition from aftermost year, and with the advice of so abounding volunteers and retailers, we were able to get the food and backpacks we needed," says Blatt. "Now 400 academy accouchement throughout the canton will be able to go to academy activity acceptable alive they accept the food they need."

Throughout the year, The Sharing Shelf program, founded by Blatt in 2009, collects new and acclaim acclimated children's accouterment again distributes the accouterment to added than 1,500 beggared accouchement a year at no amount to the accouchement or their families. The "Backpacks to School" activity is an addendum of these efforts and fills a charge amid underprivileged acceptance throughout Westchester County, who generally alpha the academy year after all-important supplies.

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The backpacks now go to breadth organizations and agencies that assignment one-on-one with families so the academy food can get to families in time for the alpha of academy abutting week.

Helping accommodated this year's ambition were 30 volunteers from the law close Traub Lieberman Straus & Shrewsberry LLP in Hawthorne. Advisers and their families fabricated donations and volunteered their time to ample 120 elementary academy backpacks with folders, agreement books, scissors, pencils, markers, crayons, cement and erasers.

At The Sharing Shelf barn in Port Chester, volunteers arranged 250 average and aerial academy backpacks, which in accession to basal supplies, included computer deride drives and accurate calculators.

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"We had one brace accord 100 beam drives for the aerial academy accoutrements back they abstruse we bare them," said Blatt.

New and gently-used accurate calculators were additionally donated by volunteers and by acceptance and adroitness associates at Iona Prep in New Rochelle. Numerous retailers offered allowance cards, discounts and in-kind donations, including Astoria Federal Savings & Loan, Target (Mt. Kisco, White Plains), Staples, Value Drug (Eastchester), Lakeshore Learning and Stop & Shop (North White Plains). The Sharing Shelf additionally alternate in a county-wide accomplishment at the Ridge Hill capital in Yonkers, accession academy food and banking donations from shoppers.

The backpacks accept been requested by added than a dozen programs for acceptance in New Rochelle, White Plains, Port Chester, Yonkers, Greenburgh, Ossining, Shrub Oak and Mahopac.

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Financial donations and some supplies, including three-ring binders, are still bare to ample some actual backpacks. Food can be alone off from 9 am to 5 pm, Monday through Friday at FSW's Port Chester address at One Gateway Plaza, 4th Floor, beyond from the Open Door and abutting to Stop & Shop, or at FSW's White Plains appointment at One Summit Ave, 2nd attic reception.

Checks can be fabricated out to FSW/The Sharing Shelf and mailed to Family Casework of Westchester, One Gateway Plaza, Port Chester, NY 10573. To accomplish a acclaim agenda donation, association can go to FSW's website at www.fsw.org and bang on accord on the home folio or alarm Deborah Wilson at (914) 305-6876. Please announce that the donation is for The Sharing Shelf/Backpacks drive. To apprentice how you can advice with the Backpack Drive or advance at The Sharing Shelf, acquaintance Deborah Blatt at thesharingshelf@fsw.org or (914) 355-9121.

Founded in 1954 and headquartered in Port Chester, Family Casework of Westchester runs added than 50 amusing account and brainy bloom programs that ability 30,000 children, teens, adults and families a year. The non-profit's programs run the area from acceptance casework to ancient care, from home bloom affliction to adolescence residences and accommodate capacity of such civic programs as Big Brothers Big Sisters, Head Alpha and AmeriCorps. The agency's 450 advisers and 350 volunteers accomplish out of seven offices through the county.

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