NEW YORK: For the third year in a row, Partnership for the Advancement of Learning (PAL) has donated backpacks filled with supplies including notebooks, pencils, crayons, and pencils cases to two schools in Massachusetts and New York. PAL raised nearly $20,000 this summer in order to purchase 850 backpacks. 400 backpacks were donated to the Public School 108, Sal Abbraciamento School in Brooklyn NY and 450 backpacks to the Ellis Elementary School in Roxbury MA.
The Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, School Committee chairperson Dr. Gregory Groover, the superintendent and the commissioner attended the event at the Ellis Elementary School. Mayor Menino commended Suren Nannapaneni and PAL for their efforts in helping the children of Boston schools.
Jesse Mojica, the executive director of New York City’s Department of Education attended the distribution event in Brooklyn and thanked PAL for its supporting their schools. The principal and the staff of PS 108 also thanked PAL for such a magnanimous gift to their school.
The principal said as they were struggling with the budget cuts, the backpacks are going to be a big help at the beginning of the academic year.
PAL is a completely student-run nonprofit organization that is committed to partner with like-minded people for the Advancement of Learning.
There are millions of underprivileged children all over the world, who are desperately seeking assistance to a better education and in need of other basic necessities. At the same time there are millions of fortunate people who are kind hearted and can share a little bit of their time and money to help those underprivileged.
This is where PAL comes in to action. PAL is committed to create a friendly relation between the fortunate and the less fortunate.
India Post News Service
