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Heart of America delivers over 40 tons of backpacks, books, school supplies and toiletries!

September 11
  • Operation BuddyPack delivered 5,000 BuddyPacks to students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
  • HOA Ambassadors, volunteers and staff traveled to Houston area schools, the Reliant Center and the Houston Astrodome to share 5,000 backpacks and 7,200 books with the children there.
September 19
  • 4,500 backpacks delivered by HOA Ambassadors, volunteers and staff to students evacuated to the Baton Rouge and Lafayette, Louisiana school districts.
  • 3,500 books donated to elementary schools in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas.
October 13
  • 5,000 BuddyPacks delivered to Gulf Coast Mississippi schools.
  • 15,000 books donated to students and schools in six Mississippi counties.
November 8
  • 5,300 books delivered to students in Long Beach, Mississippi.
November 16
  • HOA delivers thousands of badly-needed backpacks, school supplies and books to students still in need in Picayune, Mississippi and Dallas, Texas.

With each BuddyPack, students received school supplies, as well as much-needed toiletries, toys and books of their own.
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Organizing a Book Drive
Attending book distributions/Reading to children in the Gulf Coast area
Sorting & inventorying books in the Gulf Coast area
Transporting books in the Gulf Coast area (pick-up/delivery - requires own vehicle and valid drivers license)
Donation of in-kind services (printing, public relations, graphic design, shipping or consulting services, etc.)

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