StreetLight has designed Operation Backpack as a way for you to become involved in creating a memorable Christmas for a street kid, as well as assisting in meeting some of their basic needs.
Included is a list of items to place inside a StreetLight Backpack. Simply use the list included below as your guide.
INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO CREATE AND DONATE YOUR BACKPACK:
1. Buy a new, sturdy backpack and fill it with these items:
Pair of warm socks
Warm Gloves
5 Adult transit tickets
Shampoo & Soap
Toothbrush & Toothpaste
An Encouraging Note
Brush or Comb
$5 Fast Food Gift Certificate
Deodorant Stick
Chocolate Bar or Treat
Small First-Aid Kit
Memo Pad & Pen
A Pocket Size Bible
$5 Donation (see explanation below)
$5 Donation to StreetLight will help cover the cost for the StreetLight Christmas Party where each youth will receive the Backpack you created along with a Christmas dinner.
Optional Gifts Could Be: Sewing Kit, Small Blanket, Movie Pass, Grocery Gift Certificate (may also replace the fast food certificate), Prepaid Phone Card. The ideas are endless. (Please no medications, condoms or alcohol-based mouthwash.)
2. Next place transit tickets, encouraging note, gift certificate, a completed OBP Participant Form (provided below) and $5 donation in an envelope and insert into a front pocket of your Backpack Indicate Male or Female by securely fastening a pink or blue ribbon to the outside or yellow for a unisex bag.
3. When your StreetLight Backpack is completed, drop it off at:
Youth for Christ
#15, 1725 - 30th Avenue NE, Calgary, AB T2E 7P6
Office hours (Monday - Friday 8am-4pm), or call:
403.291.3179 or StreetLight's Director at 403.470.9322
for other possible arrangements or drop-off locations.
Project Deadline: 1st Friday of December
