Blue and Gold Club’s Successful Coat Drive
Submitted by Linda Lampert
Recently, the Blue and Gold Club at Franklin Elementary School in Rahway held their annual coat drive and collected 175 coats. 83 of the coats went to people in the Rahway community and 92 were delivered to Jersey Cares.
Jersey Cares is an organization that helps people in New Jersey. This is the 24th year that Jersey Cares has collected coats. This year, they plan to collect and distribute more than 30,000 “gently used” winter coats to men, women, and children in need throughout New Jersey. Over the past twenty-one years, Jersey Cares has collected, sorted, and distributed more than 500,000 coats to New Jersey residents through their annual drive. Companies, churches, fire departments, police stations, schools, and other organizations set up sites across the state to collect coats. Coats are then delivered by collection site representatives to the nearest container site. Volunteers then sort the donated coats at the container site and bag them for pick-up, after which nonprofit organizations pick up their coats and distribute them to people in need. For more information about Jersey Cares, check out jerseycares.org.
