The Back to School Shop, a new, all volunteer community event was launched on Sunday, August 9, at Davenport Ridge Elementary School in Stamford, CT. One hundred and twenty-five of the most economically disadvantaged elementary school children from Stamford Public elementary schools were able to “shop” free of charge for brand new back-to-school outfits and school supplies in a department store-like setting, created just for them.
A major sale at Target or Walmart or anywhere, really, had nothing on the one-day shopping spree 125 city kids got to experience Sunday at the first “Back to School Shop.”
It’s that time of year when parents and kids go back to school shopping. But, it’s a cost that not everyone is prepared to pay… especially when you consider the price of school supplies went up 12 percent this year. The Stamford community came together to make sure students start this school year with everything they’ll need to succeed with their Back to School Shop.
In recent days I keep thinking about the old kids game of tin can telephone, where friends and I talked to one another across taut strings or wires. The message, of course, always got garbled as the line got longer. We can now communicate globally with no wires attached, but the message still gets distorted.
So I thought this was pretty cool. It’s called the “Back to School Shop“. It’s a pop-up department store that was created to help disadvantaged elementary school students pick-up their own back to school items and get some new clothes for the first day or two of school.
