Jonathan Gibbons, associate director of community impact at United Way of Greater Chattanooga, and Lindsay Martz, a staff member at United Way, load school supplies onto a school bus at United Way’s Stuff the Bus fundraiser at the Chattanooga Market on Sunday. United Way filled a school bus with new school supplies to be donated to the Hamilton County Parent Teacher Association’s Teacher Supply Depot in order to equip students from low income families with the supplies they need.Hannah and Rachel Lowe, 8, had their hands full of school supplies Sunday.
The twins, who are in the third grade at Westview Elementary school, picked out school supplies from their own stash – including crayons, erasers and what Hannah called a “ruler-slash-calculator-slash-stencil” – to donate in the Stuff the Bus school supply drive, which began Sunday at the Chattanooga Market. The event was sponsored by the United Way of Chattanooga and Hamilton County Parent Teacher Association. The supplies will be donated to the Hamilton County PTA’s Teacher Supply Depot.
“We donated because we want to give to people who don’t have school stuff,” Rachel said.
“And because we want to help people,” Hannah added.
Wayne Collins, vice president of marketing and communication for United Way of Chattanooga, said some children need even the most basic school supplies.