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Group Helps Kids Get Ready for School
The Beverly Hills Women's Club gives out backpacks full of notebooks and pencils to 150 needy children.
The Beverly Hills Women's Club held its annual school supplies drive for underprivileged children Thursday. With the help of the club's junior members, which include a number of students from Beverly Hills High School, the nonprofit organization was able to collect and distribute school supplies to 150 children.
Backpacks stuffed with markers, crayons, folders, spiral notebooks, calculators, lunchboxes, pens and pencils were distributed to 100 children at the Bessie Pergerson Childcare Center and 50 children at the Upward Bound House.
Bonnie Star, a member of the women's group, said the annual event was crucial in making sure that these children, who normally wouldn't have supplies, received what they needed to attend school.
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Based in Los Angeles, the Bessie Pergerson Childcare Center provides day care facilities to about 70 children from infants to preschoolers. Upward Bound House, which is located in Santa Monica, provides transitional housing to homeless families and affordable housing to very low-income seniors.
For more information about the Beverly Hills Women's Club and the nonprofit organizations it supports, visit its website.
