Attorney Donates 23,000 Fully Stocked Backpacks So Kids Can Conquer Class
School is officially in session for most of the U.S., and a generous attorney is making sure the kids in his community are starting off the academic year fully prepared.
Mike Morse, a lawyer who owns a firm of the same name, donated just over $250,000 to provide 23,000 backpacks to Detroit students, People.com reported. Stuffed with brand new school supplies, the bags got all students -- many who otherwise would have secondhand supplies or nothing at all -- on the same page for the school year.
“I think it teaches them that there are people out there in the community that care about them,” Morse said in a video produced for the law firm. “They want them to succeed, that want them to win at life.”
The initiative had a trial run in May, when the Mike Morse Law Firm brought 400 backpacks to students in kindergarten through fifth grade at Wayne Elementary School, CBS Detroit reported. When it was a success, Morse sought to grow the project to reach more students in need.
“I thought, 'Let’s do this in a bigger way. Let’s find out how many kids there are in the Detroit Public School system, K through 5 range,'” Morse told the news outlet. “We found out there was 23,000 of them and my law firm said, let’s do this.
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I remember the excitement of new school supplies every fall…
This is a good thing for the lawyer to do.
