{"id":324585,"date":"2026-08-19T02:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324585\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T02:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:12:47","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-families-gather-in-canarsie-to-receive-resources-at-annual-back-to-school-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/324585\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Families Gather In Canarsie To Receive Resources At Annual Back To School Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Buying backpacks and other school supplies can be a burden for many families. This is why one Brooklyn community helped them start the school year off on the right foot.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Hundreds gathered on Tuesday for the annual Fun Day and Back-to-School Event at Canarsie Park, where they received resources including free bookbags, food and diapers.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We got notebooks and coloring books,&#8221; said Micheline, who is a rising fifth grader.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">State Sen. Roxanne Persaud partnered with local organizations and agencies to provide what she called a &#8220;starter pack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;We can&#8217;t give them everything; but we&#8217;re giving them what they need to start, and then they build on that,&#8221; said Persaud, who represents New York State Senate District 19 in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The line stretched throughout the park, as volunteers handed out more than 600 backpacks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Think about the bookbags, the notebooks, the pencils, everything adds up,&#8221; said Natacha Baptiste, of Canarsie.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;[It costs] hundreds of dollars, hundreds,&#8221; said Shewlanda Berkley, of East Flatbush. &#8220;I stopped counting at one point because it&#8217;s so expensive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">School supplies may be expensive, but the cost of coming together and helping one another is priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buying backpacks and other school supplies can be a burden for many families. This is why one Brooklyn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-324585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}