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MADERA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A section hubby and woman collaborated to assistance springiness kids the due needs and supplies for back-to-school successful Madera.
Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School's back-to-school lawsuit provides students who are little fortunate with thing from backpacks to haircuts.
Vanessa Sanchez has been a Safety Officer astatine the schoolhouse since January, her hubby Greg Sanchez owns a section barbershop successful Fresno called Ace of Fadez Barbershop.
He has back-to-school events astatine his barbershop annually, but this year, helium and his woman teamed up to assistance students successful need.
"I saw a batch of kids that didn't person backpacks oregon backpacks were broken. You know, a batch couldn't they didn't person haircuts. They weren't they were coming successful wearing hoodies oregon beanies erstwhile it was similar 100-degree weather. And it was due to the fact that they didn't person a haircut, oregon they couldn't get a haircut," Sanchez said.
7-year-old Alexis is simply a Madera Unified student, who went to the back-to-school giveaway, "Cuts 4 Kidz" to get her hairsbreadth braided, truthful she tin look her champion for the archetypal time of school.
"It's bully for you due to the fact that they're getting your hairsbreadth done for schoolhouse alternatively of you similar doing the hairsbreadth and worldly erstwhile you spell to schoolhouse oregon cutting it oregon due to the fact that that's similar a discarded of money," Alexis said.
317 backpacks were fixed distant filled with notebooks, folders, pencils, crayons, and different supplies.
Giving backmost to the assemblage is important for the couple, specifically successful Madera.
"In this area, it's a batch of farmworkers, you know, a batch of workplace families. And, you know, they can't spell to Fresno, and they can't spell to shops. You know, they're ever working, and the wealth is minimal for them. So, you know, erstwhile we tin get backmost to them to assistance them out, similar the mode they assistance america retired agriculturally, it's a blessing," Sanchez said.
Lawrence Fernandez, Safety and Security Director for Madera Unified School District says this lawsuit volition person a immense interaction connected students.
"The archetypal time of schoolhouse means a batch to kids and coming to schoolhouse that archetypal time with a caller haircut. I mean, that tin mean the satellite to a kid, you know, with self-esteem. It conscionable does truthful overmuch for our kids," Fernandez said.
Greg and Vanessa Sanchez accidental they anticipation to treble the fig of volunteers and backpacks they had this year, to support kids feeling assured for the archetypal time of school.
