Our Volunteers

It Takes a (Howard) County and a Year to Get it Done.

 

Prepare for Success has become a year-round activity that focuses on distributing school supplies prior to the upcoming school year. The process ends the week before school starts. At that time, the supplies were distributed to HCPSS schools, where administrators and school personnel distributed them to students needing our support. While August is the end, it all starts up again in September.

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In the Fall ...

Some of our hardest workers are the students with special needs at Cedar Lane School in Fulton. The school is a one-of-a-kind learning environment with the motto “Learning is for everyone." In September, PFS delivers a bulk order of elementary school supplies purchased with monetary donations and some of our August collections. As part of their work skills development, the students pack about 1100 elementary school backpacks. This continues throughout the school year.

In the Summer ...

In August, everything comes together for our massive assembly of backpacks and school supplies in the last two weeks of the month. It is then that our community volunteers kick into high gear.

 

Groups collect all our donation boxes and bring them to our assembly location. At the same time we have received our recent bulk supply purchase. The River Hill Boys Soccer Teams, couples, (grand)parents with (grand)children, church groups, students seeking community credit, and more are on hand to sort, pack, count, and move a mountain of supplies to their designated locations. 

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September arrives, and the cycle restarts ...