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Helping Students
Putnam Rotary Club Interact Club members Kaelyn and Talia Tremblay work with TEEG volunteers as they distribute backpacks to students “on the road” at the Pomfret Community School. Courtesy photo.



The Putnam Rotary Club’s very active Interact Club helped TEEG give back-to-school backpacks to 90 students recently.
Members of the Interact Club, which included Suzette and Quinn Lefevre, Kaelyn and Talia Tremblay, club president Amayah Chaves, plus Benjamin Northup and Tyler Fullerton and advisor Roberta Rocchetti helped TEEG distribute the backpacks at the Woodstock Middle School, Pomfret Community School and at the TEEG facility. The Interact volunteers helped families fill their new school backpacks with all the essentials to start the new school year.  The club and the Putnam Rotary Club were among numerous organizations that started collecting supplies in July. TEEG has run this community program for about 20 years.
In addition to the school supplies, this year TEEG was able to give each student $20 to go toward shoes.
TEEG has expanded and grown the program each year. It offers a client choice model, and encourages each student to come in and select their own supplies. Distribution is done the week before school starts. This year TEEG took its distribution on the road to reach families in Woodstock and Pomfret. TEEG then tailored its lists so that at each distribution site, each child was able to get the supplies needed for their specific grade. TEEG officials said, “The goal of our program is to make sure that each child starts the school year with all the supplies needed to be successful.”


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