Chukchansi Park in downtown Fresno holds back-to-school resource fair

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As the countdown to the extremity of summertime continues, caller goals and expectations acceptable successful for kids opening class.

However, the commencement of the schoolhouse twelvemonth tin beryllium financially challenging for immoderate families.

On Saturday, Chukchansi Park hosted a back-to-school assets just with giveaways to assistance families successful getting acceptable for the caller schoolhouse twelvemonth without overspending.

Keshia Thomas serves arsenic a Board Member for the Fresno Unified School District and emphasizes the urgent request for support.

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"For immoderate people, it puts them astatine a deficit. So for them to not person to spell retired determination and bash that due to the fact that they inactive person to bargain shoes, they inactive person to bargain clothes, they're inactive immoderate necessities that our babies request successful bid to commencement schoolhouse successful a affirmative space," Thomas said. "So, this conscionable benignant of lets them beryllium successful a abstraction wherever they don't person to bash truthful overmuch and there's not truthful overmuch coming retired of their pockets."

Over the years, the lawsuit has grown from being hosted successful a parking batch to thousands of radical making their mode to downtown Fresno stadium.

From backpacks to notebooks to adjacent a caller haircut, the West Fresno Family Resource Center, the Fresno Grizzlies and Cal-Viva Health partnered to connection supplies and resources for kids going backmost to class.

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Fresno Building Healthy Communities was 1 of dozens of vendors determination to assistance connection resources to families during this clip of year.

"Our taxable contiguous is backmost to schoolhouse and beating the vigor and however to prevention h2o and each that stuff," Evan Yang with Fresno Building Healthy Communities said. "So, what we've been doing the past fewer months is enactment connected our campaigns connected however to amended the prime of aerial and waters."

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