Free Backpacks Given To School Children in Dorchester

BOSTON SUNDAY 0809: Elizabeth Caisey Community Life Service Coordinator, works loading one of two hundred backpacks filled with school supplies that were being given out to school children, Sunday, August 9, 2020, at The Community Builders on Talbot Ave in Dorchester.They were also giving0 out free food like tacos and had a raffle for children during the event. (Jim Michaud / MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON SUNDAY 0809: Elizabeth Caisey Community Life Service Coordinator, works loading one of two hundred backpacks filled with school supplies that were being given out to school children, Sunday, August 9, 2020, at The Community Builders on Talbot Ave in Dorchester.They were also giving out free food like tacos and had a raffle for children during the event. (Jim Michaud / MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON SUNDAY 0809: Donald Caisey helps Diego Arevall, 7, with his new backpack, during a give away of two hundred backpacks filled with school supplies that were being given out to school children, Sunday, August 9, 2020, at The Community Builders on Talbot Ave in Dorchester.They were also giving out free food like tacos and had a raffle for children during the event. (Jim Michaud / MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON SUNDAY 0809: Some of the two hundred backpacks filled with school supplies that were being given out to school children, Sunday, August 9, 2020, at The Community Builders on Talbot Ave in Dorchester.They were also giving out free food like tacos and had a raffle for children during the event. (Jim Michaud / MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON SUNDAY 0809: Children wearing their new backpacks work entering into a raffle for gifts and gift cards, as some two hundred backpacks filled with school supplies were being given out to school children, Sunday, August 9, 2020, at The Community Builders on Talbot Ave in Dorchester.They were also giving out free food like tacos and had a raffle for children during the event. (Jim Michaud / MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON SUNDAY 0809: Elizabeth Caisey, center, Community Life Service Coordinator, works giving out the first of two hundred backpacks filled with school supplies that were being given out to school children, Sunday, August 9, 2020, at The Community Builders on Talbot Ave in Dorchester.They were also giving out free food like tacos and had a raffle for children during the event. (Jim Michaud / MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)
BOSTON SUNDAY 0809:Elizabeth Caisey, center, Community Life Service Coordinator, works giving out the first of two hundred backpacks filled with school supplies to Layra Dela Cruz, 11, that were being given out to school children, Sunday, August 9, 2020, at The Community Builders on Talbot Ave in Dorchester.They were also giving out free food like tacos and had a raffle for children during the event. (Jim Michaud / MediaNews Group/Boston Herald)