Soma Bags makes backpacks equipped with solar panels that power a light, enabling children in rural Tanzania to read even when the sun goes down.

Food insecurity and hunger are a critical issue for youth in Koochiching County. To help the 19 percent of area children living in poverty, United Way of Northeastern Minnesota this fall launched ...

The life-preserving backpack is the brainchild ... visited the ruined Okawa Elementary School in Ishinomaki, Miyagi Prefecture, where 84 children and staff members died or were listed as missing ...

Blue Grass Farms Charities provided backpacks filled with school supplies to 346 children of thoroughbred industry workers in Central Kentucky aged K-5th grade. In 2015, BGFC provided 190 backpacks.

He started in 2016 by handmaking 80 backpacks per month, sewing on a solar panel sourced from China that charged during the children’s walk to and from school. By the time they returned home ...

Multiserv and Bathebeleng Children's Home representatives pose with backpacks. As the start of the 2025 academic year fast approaching, the Bathabeleng Children’s Home manager, Petunia Mashifane ...

HIGH SCHOOL SENIORS nationwide are grabbing the reins of life by wearing children’s backpacks to school — a trend through which many say celebrates the end of their education by revisiting the ...

Students in the Minnetonka, Medina, and Maple Grove areas will soon be the recipients of everything they need to kick off the school year. On Saturday, July 30, TCC, the largest Verizon Authorized ...

As the “back-to-school” season rolls around, many children are getting ready with new backpacks, lunchboxes and new routines. But for children living in poverty, this exciting time may be filled with ...

Dr Ruparel added that 8 in 10 children could experience back pain due to their school bags, with symptoms such as tingling, numbness, or even red marks on their shoulders. IDEAL BAG WEIGHT Experts ...

Learning to read after school can be tricky enough when ... barrier to children getting an education. He says the backpack idea came when children he was doing reading groups with returned books ...