Ventura South Teams Up with Other Clubs
To Provide School Supplies for Needy Students
On Saturday, August 12, the administrative office of the Ventura Unified School District was a beehive of activity, as the three Rotary Clubs in Ventura (Downtown, East, and South), together with the Ventura Lions Club, teamed up to fill nearly 900 brand-new backpacks with school supplies for needy elementary, middle, and high school students throughout Ventura. Rotary Ventura South donated $2,500 to the annual project, spearheaded by Rotary Downtown.
More than 50 volunteers turned out to help fill brightly colored backpacks with notebooks, folders, calculators, paper, pens, markers, and other essentials for the start of the new school year. Representing Rotary Ventura South were N.K. Khumalo and his son Siso (pictured above), and Sandy and Anne Warren.
As volunteers holding open backpacks in each hand circled tables, other volunteers placed the various items in the packs. Still other volunteers checked each pack for completeness and grouped them in batches for the schools. Distribution was made on Monday, August 14, so the backpacks will be waiting for the students when the school year starts later this month.