Kawhi Leonard Donates A Million Backpacks to California Youngsters
Kawhi Leonard determined to return dwelling this summer time and signal with the Los Angeles Clippers as a free agent.
Whereas Leonard hopes to convey champion success on the courtroom, he desires to be an inspiration to others off the courtroom as properly.
This previous Tuesday (August 20), Leonard confirmed up at Cloverdale Elementary, the place he was as soon as an honor roll pupil, with a giant shock.
He gifted college students with model new backpacks to begin the varsity yr off proper.
In entrance of the throngs of wide-eyed college students, Leonard provided phrases of encouragement, saying:
“I’m comfortable to be right here. That is the place it began for me, at Cloverdale. That is the place the dream started. I understand how onerous it’s for fogeys and college students at first of the varsity yr, so I wished to begin right here as we speak by gifting away 1,000,000 backpacks to Southern California and to each pupil right here as we speak.
“That’s certainly one of my objectives this yr, to assist on and off the courtroom in a good way, and I felt like this might be a good way to begin. I hope you guys know the Clippers have your backs as long as you set within the work. Like I all the time say, simply be nice.”
Leonard shall be donating backpacks to all the youngsters within the Los Angeles, Inglewood and Moreno Valley Unified college districts.
In accordance with the Los Angeles Instances, greater than 80% of Okay-12 college students within the Los Angeles Unified College District system have been eligible at no cost or lowered lunch, that means they’re both from a low-income household, homeless or within the foster program.
Receiving a free backpack is a big assist to many of those kids and their households as they typically have to maneuver from place to position at a momen’ts discover. Having one thing to retailer their belongings in is a giant deal.
That is only the start of the kind of work Leonard desires to do. He continued:
“I need to assist children with their schooling, to hopefully encourage them to maintain transferring ahead regardless of the obstacles. And I wished to begin with my old skool, as a result of that is the place it began at for me.”
