Without basic supplies, children cannot start the school year off right, but for many American Indian families other priorities like food need to come first.

Running Strong and Christian Relief Services Charities help American Indian children with their back to school needs by providing them backpacks filled with pens, paper, pencils, scissors, crayons, erasers, glue, sharpeners and notebooks, just in time for school.

Running Strong provided 3,100 children with backpacks filled with school supplies in:
• Montana
• Minnesota
• Nebraska
• New Mexico
• South Dakota