City to host Free Backpack Giveaway this weekend

Annual Swope Park event provides tech and other free supplies

By John Sharp

KCMO Mayor Pro Tem & 5th District City Councilmember Ryana Parks-Shaw is hosting her 6th annual Operation Backpack giveaway of backpacks and numerous other school supplies for students who are KCMO residents from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, August 2, while supplies last at Swope Park.

Persons should enter the park at 67th & Swope Parkway.

The giveaway will include books, computers & tablets as well as backpacks and other school supplies.  It also will include feminine hygiene products.

The event is being sponsored in partnership with Giving Hope & Help. It is open to KCMO residents.

Learn more at www.kcmo.gov/city-hall/city-officials/city-council-members/councilwoman-ryana-parks-shaw-5th-district/operation-backpack.


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