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- Supplies, ready to be packed!
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- Volunteers assemble backpacks.
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- Participants learned about CWS as part of the event.
On Wednesday, December 7, Church World Service’s Jersey City office partnered with Goldman Sachs to put on a Community TeamWorks event. Goldman Sachs volunteers packaged backpacks for CWS’s unaccompanied children clients. During this event, a team of 85 volunteers from Goldman Sachs helped pack 500 backpacks for toddlers as well as elementary, middle and high school students. The backpacks contained CWS hygiene kits, coloring books, pencils, notebooks and more. The event was a tremendous success — the volunteers were phenomenal and even wrote thoughtful notes to the kids who will receive these backpacks!
“This was Jersey city’s first large scale corporate volunteering event, and I am so thrilled it went off without a hitch! We are so grateful to Goldman Sachs for allowing us to present on our work and for supporting out unaccompanied minor clients,” said Nora Salitan, CWS Jersey City director of development.
Church World Service Jersey City plans to serve 2000 unaccompanied children in 2023, and having these backpacks available to welcome them during their first home visit is a big help. We are so grateful to partner with Goldman Sachs to support newly-arrived children. If you are interested in becoming a corporate partner of CWS Jersey Office, please email nsalitan@cwsglobal.org.