Update, Aug. 19: The Darien Department of Human Services is giving out school supplies and can still use more large backpacks. The department accepts donations at Town Hall.
Update, Aug. 5: The town Department of Human Services could especially use more large, high-school-student-size backpacks (Costco has good ones) and book covers for its back-to-school program to make sure every student has enough supplies.
Although the department is distributing the supplies starting on Monday, Aug. 8, the program runs through the start of school on Sept. 1, and donations are accepted even as supplies are being given out. (If they have an overabundance of some items, they can be saved for next year.)
Original article, June 13:
The Darien Department of Human Services is accepting donations of school supplies for students going back to school in September.
Supplies will start being distributed on Aug. 8, so the department needs them before that. In the last school year, the department helped 147 school children, all from Darien, Human Services Director Olive Hauser said.
Flyer from the Darien Department of Social Services
You can help by bringing these items to the department office in Room 109 at Town Hall:
The list of wanted items, from the Darien Department of Social Services flyer.
- Adult size Back Packs
- Yellow highlighters
- Red, blue,green pens
- Two pocket folders
- 8-pack large crayons
- Magic markers
- 1.5 inch binders
- Pencil sharpeners with tops
- No. 2 pencils
- Pencil cases
- Book covers
- Safety scissors
- Colored pencils
- One-subject note books
- Filler paper
- Binder dividers
- Easers Rulers
- Post it notes
Editor’s note: This article originally was published on June 13. The time stamp has been changed (once on July 24, again on Aug. 5, and again on Aug. 19) to move the link back to the Home page.