Valley Students Head Back to Class in Style

ANSONIA  >> More than 250 Ansonia students went back to school in style this year, thanks to donations from several Valley businesses.

Valley United Way’s Corporate Volunteer Council recently presented 253 students from Mead and Prendergast schools with bins piled high with new clothes and school supplies, as part of the 23^rd annual Back to School Clothes for Kids project thttps://valleyunitedway.org/events/back-school-clothes-kids.

According to Patricia Tarasovic, VUW’s Vice President of Community Engagement and CVC Director, this year’s back to school project represented the highest number of students adopted by local businesses in a school district.

The CVC is a coalition of more than 50 Valley businesses and corporations, both large and small, who give back to the communities where they live and work, according to Tarasovic.

 

(photos by Fred Ortoli, contributed by Ansonia Schools)