Salvation Army helps children throughout the year
Manager in training, Chris Olah, assists Salvation Army customer, Stacy Johnson, on Friday evening. Stacy, of Shabonna, shops for toys for a family friend’s new baby.
October 1, 2012
For the seventeenth year in a row, the Salvation Army helped children throughout DeKalb prepare for the beginning of a new school year.
The Salvation Army provided for 1,207 children, more than double the amount of children served in 2011.
Volunteers packed backpacks full of notebooks, pens, pencils and other supplies to be given away.
The back-to-school program, renamed Tools 4 School in recognition of this year’s contributions, has seen significant support from both the DeKalb Chamber of Commerce Leadership Academy and the local Wal-Mart, in addition to local volunteers from NIU and DeKalb High School.