Operation Backpack (StreetLight)

StreetLight has designed Operation Backpack as a way for you to become involved in creating a memorable Christmas for a street kid, as well as assisting in meeting some of their basic needs.Included is a list of items to place inside a StreetLight Backpack. Simply use the attached panel as your guide.

INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO CREATE AND DONATE YOUR BACKPACK:

1. Buy a new, sturdy backpack and fill it with these items:  

  • Pair of warm socks
  • Warm Gloves
  • 5 Adult transit tickets
  • Shampoo & Soap
  • Toothbrush & Toothpaste
  • An Encouraging Note
  • Brush or Comb
  • $5 Fast Food Gift Certificate
  • Deodorant Stick
  • Chocolate Bar or Treat
  • Small First-Aid Kit
  • Memo Pad & Pen
  • A Pocket Size Bible
  • $5 Donation (see explanation below)
$5 Donation to StreetLight will help cover the cost for the StreetLight Christmas Party where each youth will receive the Backpack you created along with a Christmas dinner.Optional Gifts Could Be: Sewing Kit, Small Blanket, Movie Pass, Grocery Gift Certificate (may also replace the fast food certificate), Prepaid Phone Card. The ideas are endless. (Please no medications, condoms or alcohol-based mouthwash.)

 

2. Next place transit tickets, encouraging note, gift certificate, a completed OBP Participant Form (provided below) and $5 donation in an envelope and insert into a front pocket of your Backpack Indicate Male or Female by securely fastening a pink or blue ribbon to the outside or yellow for a unisex bag.

 

3. When your StreetLight Backpack is completed, drop it off at the Youth Unlimited office #15, 1725 - 30th Avenue NE, Calgary, AB T2E 7P6 during office hours (Monday - Friday 8am-4pm), or call 403.291.3179 for other possible arrangements or drop-off locations.

Project Deadline: 1st Friday of December

Please click here for a printable format of StreetLight's OPERATION BACKPACK INSTRUCTIONS (with form) or just the OPERATION BACKPACK PARTICIPANT FORM (please attach this form to the completed backpack.)

Operation Backpack brochures and posters may also be picked up at the Youth for Christ office.