Press Releases: Northwest
September 10, 2003
Kaiser Permanente delivers school supplies to help children
Kaiser Permanente staff spent several weeks this summer collecting school supplies for 27 schools in Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington. Students at Beach Elementary School, in North Portland, received some of the school supplies that Kaiser Permanente North Portland Administrator Carol Jones-Williams (left) helped deliver. Photo by Mike Calkumm.
Students at Beach Elementary School, in North Portland
PORTLAND, Ore. – Children attending 27 elementary schools in Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington received school supplies from Kaiser Permanente this month. Staff and members at Kaiser Permanente facilities in the Northwest collected and donated thousands of pens, pencils, crayons, sheets of notebooks paper and other school supplies items.
This is the fifth year for the drive, which was started by volunteers at the Kaiser Permanente Interstate Campus in North Portland who wanted to collect school supplies for children at four nearby low-income schools. That year, 60 boxes of donated supplies were delivered to four schools. This year, the drive has grown to include 27 schools.
Kaiser Permanente is a group practice health care organization serving the health care needs of about 440,000 people in Northwest Oregon and Southwest Washington.
