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Many Mansions asking for school supplies

Backpack program provides for low-income school children

Many Mansions' Children Services Program is seeking donations for its Backpack School Supply Program, which provides a brand new backpack and needed school supplies for lowincome children and teens for the new educational year.

Inkind or monetary donations are accepted. The program is in need of the following new (not used) items: backpacks, pens, pencils, compasses, colored markers, colored pencils, pencil sharpeners with catchers, highlighters, scissors, rulers, protractors, calculators, subject separators, scotch tape, binders in all sizes, pink erasers, and college and wide ruled paper.

A total of 300 of each item are needed to fill enough backpacks for Many Mansions' resident children.

All donations need to be in by 4:30 p.m. Thurs., Aug. 21 at Many Mansions, 1459 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Bldg. D, Thousand Oaks.

For information, call Fiona Kilner, director of services, at (805) 4964948, ext. 222 or email fiona@manymansions.org.

Many Mansions, a nonprofit organization, is one of the leading providers of affordable housing in Ventura County.