You can donate to Safe Horizons and give a young victim of violence all he/she needs for the beginning of the school year. Even $25 would be a BIG HELP. It buys a HOPE PACK full of school supplies.

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Dear Blogger,

Each year, parents and children trudge through endless aisles
debating the perfect paper, pens and folders in a rite of passage—back-to-school
shopping. Besieged by begging, fighting and pleading, parents often dread this
time of year. But for many children, shopping is a luxury and school supplies
just aren’t a priority or even an option.

Safe Horizon, the nation’s leading victim assistance
organization, provides services to 26,000 children annually. These children are
often victims of abuse, caught in vicious cycles of domestic violence and often
living in shelters. Due to their uncertain and dire circumstances, their
families often cannot even afford rent, let alone pencils or paper.

To help provide for these children, last year, Safe Horizon
launched a Back-to-School Campaign—each $25 donation provided a child
with a Hope Pack, a backpack filled with the essential school supplies needed
to begin a new school year. Hope Packs return
a sense of normalcy and belonging to children affected by violence.
A new backpack stuffed with shiny binders, bright colored pencils and
calculators for the new school year symbolizes a new beginning for a child living
with violence.

Safe Horizon believes that every school-aged
child deserves to enter the school year with the necessary supplies—this year,
Safe Horizon is striving to exceed the 1,000 Hope Packs they distributed last
year.

Please let your readers know that this one-time
donation will radically change the lives of
New York City ’s most deserving
residents. School starts soon—with your readers’
help, thousands of children can return to school with not only the tools to
learn, but also confidence in face of their hardships. 

  Safe Horizon, the nation’s leading victim assistance
organization, serves more than 350,000 people each year who have been touched
by violence. Safe Horizon provides the practical tools, emotional support,
education and advocacy to help victims and their families heal and rebuild
their lives. For more information, please see www.safehorizon.org.