Imagine the excitement of your first day of a new school year – old friends and new opportunites. You find your shiny clean desk while giggling with your classmates. Then the teacher asks the class to take out their pencil and notebook to begin your science lesson, but you don’t have either.

When students don’t have access to school supplies, it can be embarrassing and devastating to the child’s sense of worth. Most kids do not know how to ask for help. Harford County Education Foundation works directly with teachers to supply students with the resources they cannot afford, often before the need arises.

12,000 Harford County Public School students live in poverty- what can we do to help?

For the past twelve years, Harford County Education Foundation has been giving school supplies to students in need. This year, the Education Foundation gave over $30,000 in free school supplies helping teachers prepare their students for learning.

Tools for Schools is a school supply resource center where teachers can shop for free for the learning materials for students in need. With everyone contributing to a central resource center, we can ensure that every child in need is served. And teachers know best which students are without the schools supplies they need for educational success