www.GiveBackaPack.org

We raised over $1,000 dollars with this event which is being used towards buying discounted backpacks! It was a very fun time and we traded donations for cupcakes, pigs in a blanket and some beer. Thank you to all who came to the event and either donated a backpack or money, we really appreciate your support! - Give Back a Pack Foundation

 

We had a very successful turn out for our first NYC event on May 22, 2009. Noe Burgos was the man in charge of organizing the event and he was able to collect a good amount of cash for the organization. Many people came out and even strangers at the bar contributed to the cause! A special thanks to all the Fordham and Penn people who came out and supported GBP. Bar owner Jozef Kuzmkowski was great to work with and of course did some fancy bartending tricks along with Ravi Kantha. Overall, ...

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When we began this challenge, we all knew one of the toughest things would be to keep our energy up at all times. Fortunately, this has not been the case so far. Our adventure has had many different stages which have helped us stay focused and full of energy. When we began we had all sorts of ideas, our main challenge was to narrow them all down and try to draw up our game plan, set some goals for the organization and come up with a name. Once we thought we had a clear idea of the direction w...
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Our Cupcake Event - May 31, 2009

Saturday:  Early morning ingredient shopping was quite an adventure with Maria and her 4 little cousins. Once we had all the ingredients we needed we went to Maria’s house to begin the cooking extravaganza. While Maria and I cooked, the girls decorated the car and made signs which read “give a child a future and we will give you a cupcake”.  By the time we were done we had 1 fully painted car, 6 signs, 85 vanilla cupcakes and 85 chocolate cupcakes.

Sunday:...
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Our trip was extremely succesful! It was capped off by our trip to La Vega, where we delievered backpacks to a small school. It took roughly 45 minutes from the town center to get to Escuela San Jose and it was a very swirvy and bumpy ride. The kids all flocked us as we were pulling in with smiles bigger than the mountains they were surrounded by. After the introduction, they began calling us "Los Ninos de Estados Unidos" which means "The Kids of United States". It was quite shocking at first...

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We are staying in Bogota, Colombia and everyone here is very kind. We've met with lawyers, accountants, school teachers, business owners etc and we cannot be happier about our progress. Tomorrow we go to La Vega for two days to pass out back packs, meet the children, meet the teachers, and learn more about their situation. Alejandra is an amazing guide and she has been working non-stop for the foundation (besides taking woderful pictures of the school kids). We hope to start making a signific...
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Tomorrow we fly to Bogota, Colombia. Alejandra, our foot soldier in Colombia, will pick us up and begin touring us around the poorer villages of Colombia. We hope to document our visit and show others the conditions these schools are in. We can’t wait to see the smiles on the children’s faces. It’s a very exciting feeling and we’re so happy we were able to accomplish so much in less than a month. We’d like to thank Brian Lee from Pro Club for his enormous donation of back packs for ...

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