READY, STEADY, GO

BACK TO SCHOOL DRIVES HELP Y KIDS PREPARE FOR A NEW SCHOOL YEAR

As families prepared for a new school year, the Y and our partners looked for ways to help them start out on the right foot. In the Bronx, Staples donated 500 back-toschool kits for kids at various sites. At the West Side Y, the board of managers came together to donate, fully supply, and assemble 160 backpacks for students in afterschool programs at P.S. 145, 165, and 191.•

(top) Students with new school supplies in the Bronx; West Side Y backpacks ready for pick up

volunteer Christine Murray and West Side Y Board Member Matt Anderson help prepare supplies to fill a new backpack