CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Lower Lake High School Rotary Interact Club helped hundreds of children through a giveaway of backpacks and supplies on Thursday afternoon.
The giveaway, part of the group's “Blessings in a Backpack” program, was held at Walmart in Clearlake.
Altogether, more than 200 backpacks were distributed and about 50 families were helped, said Jen Totten, Rotary Interact Club advisor at Lower Lake High School.
“This is all done and completed by Lower Lake High School students,” said Dana Moore, president of the Clearlake Rotary.
Moore said Rotary was proud of the new Interact Club, which is the first of its kind at Lower Lake High School.
Thirty Interact Club members participated in the giveaway program, gathering donations throughout the school year, Totten said.
She estimated that about a third of those who came to get the donations on Thursday were homeless.
Totten said the club members were touched by the experience.
“These students really made it happen,” said Totten.
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