| STREETLIGHT'S
OPERATION BACKPACK
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)
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$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 for Christ
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 attatch this form to the completed backpack.)
Operation Backpack brochures and posters may also be picked up at the Youth
for Christ office. |
