Thanks to 16 year-old Solisha Andico and her little sister 11 year-old Shileen more than 25 children will be attending school with new backpacks and plenty of school supplies.
Two months ago the sisters decided to give back to the community, most especially the children of the community, by organizing a backpack and school supply drive. They contacted local businesses asking them if they could either donate or place a collection box at their place of business. This proved to be a successful plan.
Collecting approximately 25 backpacks, boxes and boxes of crayons, pens, pencils, erasers, glue sticks and paper, along with notebooks and other supplies, the girls were more than ready by the collection date of August 9, 2011 to organzie their 'free school supply giveaway' day scheduled for August 13, 2011 infront of the Copper library.