Social Services gets a hand from local students
Something as simple as a backpack can make the difference for children in the Social Services system, and some local students are working to make that difference.
The Interact club — an affiliate of the Rotary Club — at the North Battleford Comprehensive High School recently received and packed 60 backpacks, which they’ll hand over to Social Services to give to children in their care.
Dakota Peterson, one of the Interact members, said while a backpack may not seem like much, it can make all the difference to a child who has to leave home.
“When social services has to go and take kids out of a bad situation at their home, the kids that taken out usually don’t have much or anything at all,” Peterson said. “And the stuff that they do have they carry it around in garbage bags and pillow cases.”