By Lindsay Carey Staff Writer The Giving Back Girls recently collected backpacks and school supplies to provide for children in need and also helda food drive to support the food pantry at Southington Community Services (SCS). The girls, who voluntary serve the Southington community, collected school supplies to fill back packs, store them and then hand them out to children before school started for the Smart Start program. They filled between 300 to 400 back packs with school supplies for boys and girls in the Southington community who need it. This is a massive project that the Giving Back Girls took over with the encouragement of Janet Mellon from SCS. Under the guidance of the Arc of Southington, the Giving Back Girls have successful grown the project. “Every single year we have less and less we have to do,” said Mark Fazzolari, assistant director of Southington Community Services, about the Smart Start program. “From the drives for schools supplies to the group getting together and organizing the supplies, and then they work with the schools too, they free up so much time by helping us with it.” Since the Giving Back Girls have taken over the project, it has allowed [...]
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