In Irkutsk, the traditional campaign to support schoolchildren from families in difficult life situations continues, for the new school year children receive backpacks with stationery sets selected by grade. This year 406 children have already received help, and 300 thousand rubles have been allocated from the city budget. Find out how the campaign is organized and how many schoolchildren will receive backpacks in the Pravoberezhny district.

This is a traditional campaign held in Irkutsk on the eve of the new school year. Providing school supplies is an additional measure of social support for underage Irkutsk schoolchildren who live in difficult families. Lists for receiving school backpacks are compiled by juvenile affairs commissions operating in each of the districts.
In the territory of the Pravoberezhny District, 87 minors will receive school backpacks. Each backpack contains a set of stationery items assembled with the student’s grade in mind.
As the chair of the juvenile affairs commission of the Pravoberezhny District, Lyudmila Kukuruza, said, the campaign began on August 1. As of today, the bulk of the backpacks has been handed over to families in especially great need of social support.
According to the Education Department of the Irkutsk city administration, a total of 406 children received the necessary school satchels, notebooks, pens, pencils, drawing albums, sets of colored paper, markers, and much more. For these purposes, 300,000 rubles were allocated from the Irkutsk city budget in 2012.
Based on materials from the press service of the Irkutsk city administration