RiverLife Community Engagement School Supply Drive
August 31 • 2:00 PM - September 05, 2021 • 12:00 PM
RiverLife Church
520 Howard Street N.
Saint Paul, Minnesota, Minnesota 55119
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Mrs. Yolanda Davis RiverLife Community Engagement RiverLife Church 520 Howard Street N. Saint Paul, Minnesota 50019
Dearest East Side Area Businesses and Neighbors, You are always incredibly generous, and we are thankful! It is time for RiverLife’s Community Engagement school supplies drive! Community Engagement needs your help in providing specific school supplies for our community’s high school students. Meet Warren, a 10th grader, nervously watching, while his younger siblings in K-6th get school supplies from their lists at the church supply drive. It is his turn to show his 2021-22 school supply list: “A sickly feeling is in the pit of my stomach as the volunteer’s face changes from a smile to a sneer. The church worker thrust my supply list back at me and gives me a backpack prepacked with elementary school supplies. It does not fit around my arms. I desperately need a protractor kit, and a graphing calculator for the higher math classes I am scheduled for. I am not allowed to pick out notebooks for my 7 classes or a binder to organize it all. My mom and dad see my anguish. They reassure me they will find a way to get the proper supplies before school starts. East Side family, we should be relieving stress from our families with school age children. Let’s make it so this year the volunteers can smile at Warren during supply distribution this year. Our supply drive needs you to donate purchases from high school supply lists as well as the K-8th lists. Community Engagement has created wish lists for K-12 school supplies on www.riverlifemn.com for Amazon.com, Target.com, and Walmart.com. Feel free to order from these list or grab a school supply list in the church lobby or see the K-12 school list on the riverlifemn.com website. You can drop off school supplies donations at the church Monday through Friday 10am to 2pm or Sunday 9am-12pm. School starts now! Your support is critical to providing school supplies for all students. Thank you for your donation today! School supply donations will be collected August through September. Distribution of school supplies will be in the second and third weeks of September. Your donations will go toward blessing K-12 students in our community! We deeply appreciate your generosity, Yolanda M. Davis RiverLife Community Engagement Team P.S. Please keep your school supplies in bags for drop off August-September 5th. Let us know if you need a donation receipt for tax purposes. Your donations make the school supply drive and distribution possible. We cannot do it without you. Thank you, East Side family. You are a blessing to our community!