Children's Back to School Shopping Spree (Click Here)
Posted by Lady Kixx Wilma on Aug 10, 2012
Hayward Rotarians and their friends helped send 90 kids back to school with new clothes,a backpack filled with much needed school supplies - and a haircut!
More than 125 Hayward Rotarians, guests, dignitaries and Target Store Associates were up at 6:30 on a foggy Saturday morning getting ready to take more than 90 local needy children shopping for new clothes and shoes at this year's Hayward Rotary Children's Back to School Shopping Spree.
the tremendous support and efforts of Target Store Manager Robert Osario and his hardworking, Target Store Associates, the Rotary Club of Hayward along with our guest shoppers helped each child pick out $100 worth of brand new Back to School Clothes. These children, ages 4-17, also each got brand new backpacks stuffed with School Supplies and a Gift Certificates for a haircut from Rotarian Kitty Kelly at her Hayward Salon.
Past Hayward Rotary Presidents Pam Russo, RN and George Pacheco once again headed up this year's Children's Shopping Spree. In addition to handling all of the details, they also helped raise more than $10,000 to fund this effort. Thanks to their efforts, along with the help of dozens of Rotarians, their family and guests as well as local officials, these kids got an opportunity to start their school year off right. Plans are underway to make next year's event even bigger to serve a growing population of school-aged children in need in the Hayward Community. The Children's Shopping Spree event is a perennial favorite project for Rotarians and we look forward to working with Target Corporation, the Hayward Area Businesses and Non-Profit organizations to making this happen.
The Rotary Club of Hayward wishes to thank Target Corporation, our members, donors, guests and especially the kids who we shopped with for the opportunity to make this a special day. In the words of one the Target Associates on duty (who herself grew up poor but was fortunate to get a scholarship to attend St. Marys College), "you'll never know just how much this means to these kids and how they will never forget the kindness the Rotarians showed them".
