Graduating MPA students, do you have a gently used extra backpack you could donate?

UT’s Division of Diversity and Community Engagement is partnering with Welcome Table Inc. to bring CDF – Freedom School® to Austin.  This summer learning program will serve 50 elementary school students in east Austin. The low incomes of the families participating mean that buying school supplies, like backpacks, is often very difficult.  Freedom School is a summer camp at which reading is emphasized.  In the afternoons STEM programming will be offered.  Over 180 Freedom Schools will be in session this summer all over the U.S.  This is the first one in Austin.  Accounting Department Chair Lillian Mills will make sure the backpacks get to the coordinators of this year’s Freedom School.

You can drop off your used backpack in the MPA Program Office by Thursday May 15.

Submitted by Madeline Jo Chauvin