Photos: Van Nuys backpack event equips kids returning to LA-area campuses
Backpacks are stacked up to be given away in Van Nuys, CA Thursday, August 11, 2022. Nury Martinez’s office provided with 250 backpacks and school supplies to kids heading back to school. New Economics for Women, Staples, and Costco helped to fund the backpack project. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Odalays Gomez and Marcela Quintanilla of Nury Martinez’s office sort through backpacks to be given away to children heading back to school in Van Nuys, CA Thursday, August 11, 2022. Nury Martinez’s office provided with 250 backpacks and school supplies to kids heading back to school. New Economics for Women, Staples, and Costco helped to fund the backpack project. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Kids check out free backpacks at a backpack give-away in Van Nuys, CA Thursday, August 11, 2022. Nury Martinez’s office provided with 250 backpacks and school supplies to kids heading back to school. New Economics for Women, Staples, and Costco helped to fund the backpack project. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Shahahn Gilbert looks on as her three children, Carter, 6, London, 8, and Cace, 12, receive free backpacks from Marcela Quintanilla of Nury Martinez office in Van Nuys, CA Thursday, August 11, 2022. Nury Martinez’s office sponsored the event providing 250 backpacks and school supplies to kids heading back to school. New Economics for Women, Staples, and Costco helped to fund the backpack project. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
Grab a bag and pack those pencils.
Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez hosted a back to school backpack giveaway in Van Nuys on Thursday, Aug. 111, partnering with the New Economics for Women group.
More than 250 students showed up to take take backpacks and school supplies for local students. Their families also took advantage of a community resaource fair.
Thousands of kids are heading back to school in the Los Angeles area this month.
An estimated 520,000 students are expected to return to Los Angeles Unified School District sites on Monday as the nation’s second-largest school district reconvenes for the fall semester.
