As schools get ready to reopen, about 550 metro Detroit school kids will receive new backpacks filled with school supplies from Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries (DRMM), a nonprofit that has been empowering the poor and the homeless in the area since 1909. The school items would be given to needy kids at the following metro Detroit venues and dates:

Saturday August 22 2015

New St. Paul Tabernacle COGIC
15340 Southfield Rd, Detroit, MI 48223
Time: 10:30am – 1pm

Wednesday August 26 2015

Lighthouse Outreach Center (a DRMM facility)
28571 Gratiot Ave, Roseville, MI 48066
Time: 11am – 1pm

Friday August 28, 2015

DRMM, 138 Stimson Street Detroit MI 48201
Time: 2pm – 4pm

Saturday August 29 2015

Dearborn Track Club
Ford Field, 22051 Cherry Hill St, Dearborn, MI 48124
Time: 11am-1pm

DRMM president and CEO, Dr. Chad Audi, described its back-to-school giveaways as “an important annual tradition that puts smiles on the faces of school boys and girls and their parents, and lets them know people here in metro Detroit really care.”

He stressed the need to lighten the burdens of low-income parents and guardians who value the education and future of their kids, adding that “helping neighbors in need is always a noble thing to do especially when done in a way that promotes their dignity.”