Back to School supplies for the Bosnian Refugee Children

From Sister Marilyn Lacey, Direction of the Catholic Charities

August 28, 1996

Friends of Catholic Charities:

With the ending of summer and the begining of the scholl year, we were delighted to receive your wonderful donation of brand new school supplies for our refugee clients. The backpacks, dictionaries, pens, notebooks, and other items will bring grateful smiles to many newcomers this months.

Even more than the donated items, we appreciate the caring, initiative, and generosity that movtivates your group's involvement. I have heard from our Match Grant Coordinator, Mr. Reza Oadabaee, what a great group of professionals you are, and how you are already helping in many personal and practical ways to support the Bosnian community here in Santa Clara County.

People like yourselves are, in my opinion, what makes Amercia great. I hope we can meet someday. May God bless you a hundredfold.

Sincerely,

Sister Marilyn Lacey, Director

Immigration, Refugee & Youth Services

CC: Mina Farr

Siamak Hassanzadeh

Froozan Memari

From Mina Tue Aug 27 15:17:36 1996

Hello,

Just wanted to thank you all for your generous contribution towards the purchase of the back to school supplies, for the Bosnian Refugee Children. It is so nice to see that people care about these children's school needs. Today at lunch time we spent close to $660 purchasing 24 backpacks, over 100 notebooks, 20 binders, 10 dictionaries, and lots of paper, pencils, pens, rulers ....

Mr. Odabaee from the Catholic Charities in San Jose was telling me today that last year in the rain, some of the children had to use plastic bags to hold their school books ..... well thanks to you ..... that may not happen to some of them this year.

Thanks again &

Best Regards

Mina

From Mina Fri Aug 23 10:58:53 1996

Hello,

Last night at Mr. Odabaee's talk in Doreh, "Helping Our Community - - Hamyari Dar Ghorbat", we noticed it is back to school time for a lot of Bosnian refugee's and other needy families children. Thus, we started collecting some money to buy school supplies for these children. Siamak H. and I are going to be making a trip to Price Club and other stores to purchase these items before the Labor Day weekend.

If you would like to contribute as well, please respond to this e-mail with the amount you would like to contribute. You can then send me a check or pay me when you see me. Any money you can donate is highly appreciated. As some of you may remember, last year at the picnic we had a lot of excitement over the gifts that were bought for the children. I still remember my own excitement as I started each school year with new notebooks, pens and pencils.

Also do you still have your school backpack in a closet with some years still left in it? I would be happy to gather what you can donate and deliver it at the same time.

Best Regards

Mina

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