With fences built offering a safer and more secure environment and school interiors and exteriors painted, HEDAC purchased 1,600 backpacks, filled them with notebooks, writing supplies, crayons, and scissors. We also purchased 20 filing cabinets and teacher desks, as well as 1,500 student desks. Backpacks were not just handed out but handed out with a hug, letting them know that while our donors do not know them they know of them and care about them.