With the holiday season creeping up, and the school year in full swing, many families are facing difficult financial circumstances – especially in a recession that has risen Long Beach’s unemployment rate above 12-percent. Sometimes, it can be difficult to determine the best ways to lend a hand.
But on Saturday morning, one event will go a long way to directly assist some of the city’s economically disadvantaged youth.
The lbpost.com is proud to serve for the second consecutive year as the media sponsor of Shop With A Cop, a joint effort between the Long Beach Police Foundation and Long Beach Junior Chamber to assist the city’s youth in purchasing new school clothes and supplies (click here for photos from last year’s event).
This Saturday’s event will be the 15th annual, assisting more than 50 Long Beach children. Each will be matched with a volunteer or officer, and the pairs will spend the morning eating breakfast at Hometown Buffet, enjoying arts and crafts and buying new school clothes and supplies at Walmart.
For some children, tomorrow will be the only day that they can purchase new clothes or supplies all year. Each child will have about $100 to spend.
You can help, too.
More funding is always needed. Click here to learn more about the program, and here to donate $50 or $100 to the Shop With A Cop event.
Photo courtesy EZ Event Photography.