Binder dividers in hand, Liz Savino of Jennifer Lane and her 5-year-old son Nico, who passed out index cards, help fill the two backpacks 15-year-old Emma Stracuzzi of Madison Avenue carried down the assembly line. <BR><BR> Volunteers packed 1,040 backpacks with 19 name-brand, age-appropriate school supplies at the backpack drive organized by Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry on Tuesday, Aug. 19 at Church of the Resurrection in Rye.
John Kiyak from the Port Chester-Rye Brook Rotary Club zips up one of the filled backpacks. <BR><BR> Volunteers packed 1,040 backpacks with 19 name-brand, age-appropriate school supplies at the backpack drive organized by Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry on Tuesday, Aug. 19 at Church of the Resurrection in Rye.
Four-year-old Camila Gonzalez of Country Ridge Drive struggles to lift up the backpack almost as big as her as she and her mother, Johnna, go to drop off the bags filled with school supplies. <BR><BR> Volunteers packed 1,040 backpacks with 19 name-brand, age-appropriate school supplies at the backpack drive organized by Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry on Tuesday, Aug. 19 at Church of the Resurrection in Rye.
John Breslin, a 13-year-old from Woodland Drive, gets some glue sticks from Francesca Fraine of Avon Circle. <BR><BR> Volunteers packed 1,040 backpacks with 19 name-brand, age-appropriate school supplies at the backpack drive organized by Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry on Tuesday, Aug. 19 at Church of the Resurrection in Rye.
More than 100 people fill the basement of Resurrection Church in Rye to form assembly lines to fill the backpacks. Volunteers packed 1,040 backpacks with 19 name-brand, age-appropriate school supplies at the backpack drive organized by Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry on Tuesday, Aug. 19 at Church of the Resurrection in Rye.
Esmeralda Salcedo, an 11-year-old from Bent Avenue, and Laura Ochoa, a 19-year-old from Bush Avenue, help Father Hilario Albert from St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Port Chester break down the empty boxes that started the day filled with school supplies.<BR><BR>Volunteers packed 1,040 backpacks with 19 name-brand, age-appropriate school supplies at the backpack drive organized by Helping Hands for the Homeless & Hungry on Tuesday, Aug. 19 at Church of the Resurrection in Rye.
