As we hit the month of August, children are on the brink of head again to highschool — amongst them, children who’re going to a Canadian college for the primary time.
For Ukrainian refugees heading to highschool within the fall, Baba’s Closet affords free backpacks stuffed with goodies.
“They are going to get items inside, reward playing cards, storybooks, teddy bears, provides for college to begin them with. No matter’s not in there they will come again tomorrow and the next week and decide up the remainder of the provides on the entrance,” mentioned Nettie Cherniatenski, Baba’s Closet supervisor.
Baba’s Closet began when the struggle first started, taking in donations of home items to offer to refugee households arriving in Saskatchewan.
Nettie is feeling emotional about how far they’ve come. “It’s overwhelming. It’s even onerous to elucidate how I really feel in my coronary heart; it’s tugging at my heartstrings,” mentioned Cherniatenski.
After each household got here in since they opened, Nettie wrote down their identify and what number of children that they had.
On Thursday, she had 300 backpacks able to be picked up.
“They’re gonna have a model new backpack for the youngsters, so whether or not they use it for college, for library books, swimming, no matter, it’s one thing from Baba, hopefully they respect it,” mentioned Cherniatenski.
The households might come by and seize their baggage beginning Thursday morning at 10am.
“They’ll see what provides are within the backpack, and tick them off and that can allow them to know what different issues they should add, but it surely’s undoubtedly very good for them to return to highschool prepared,” mentioned Maxine Bell, Host Mom.
It’s a small gesture that’s making a huge impact locally.
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