Help Local Students Start School Feeling Proud, Confident and Ready to Learn!
The Back-to-School countdown is on, but for many families in Waterloo Region, it brings worry instead of excitement. With rising costs, essentials like backpacks, notebooks, gym shoes and calculators can be out of reach.
Too many children risk starting school without the supplies and confidence they need to fully participate.
The need is real: 15% of local youth face food insecurity and 13% experience homelessness or housing instability. A fully stocked backpack can help a child feel prepared, included and ready to learn.
We believe every child deserves to walk into their classroom feeling proud, happy and excited to learn and together we can make that happen! Your gift to the Back-to-School Collection helps provide families with gift cards, giving parents and caregivers the dignity to choose what their child needs most.
Because of donors like you, a student can walk into class with the right supplies and the confidence to focus on learning, not what they are missing.
Browse our Back-to-School Collection and “shop” the many ways you can set local kids up for success.
Will you help a student start school feeling proud, confident and ready to learn?
Click here, browse the Collection and inspire a student today!