GLENDORA, Calif. — For the sixth straight summer, a contingent of volunteers from America’s Christian Credit Union (ACCU) has participated in the L.A. Dream Center’s Back To School Bash at the Dream Center’s main campus in Echo Park.
The centerpiece of the event is the distribution of backpacks, stocked with school supplies, to many hundreds of low-income schoolchildren within the Dream Center’s service area in and around Los Angeles. Traditionally, between 2,000 and 3,000 kids receive new backpacks during this distribution event that has taken place every August since 2010. Following receipt of their new backpacks, children and their families have the opportunity to stay and take part in a variety of other activities, attractions, and services on the Dream Center campus, including a large water slide, carnival games, rock wall, petting zoo, free haircuts, health screening, dental checkups, and more.
At this year’s Back to School Bash, ACCU employees and family members volunteered their time to help with the backpack distribution and to manage the Carnival Games activities that followed.
“We are proud of our continuing partnership with the Dream Center, whose good works benefit so many of the at-risk residents of the community”, said Mendell Thompson, ACCU’s President and CEO.
Earlier this summer, in efforts to support the community as they prepare for back-to-school, ACCU employees partnered with Thirty-One Gift Bags and purchased cinch sacks for students at Neighborhood Homework House (NHH) in Azusa.