{"id":97191,"date":"2025-07-27T16:56:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97191\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T16:56:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T16:56:28","slug":"nonprofit-provides-school-supplies-to-400-san-antonio-military-children-ahead-of-new-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/97191\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit provides school supplies to 400 San Antonio military children ahead of new school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><strong>SAN ANTONIO<\/strong> \u2013 One national nonprofit is helping local military children start the school year off strong.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">On Saturday, Operation Homefront delivered 400 backpacks filled with school supplies to military children in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">The giveaway is part of the nonprofit\u2019s annual Back-to-School Brigade. The program distributes thousands of backpacks nationwide, helping military families with the cost of school supplies and creating a sense of community for students heading back to class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Military children typically change schools six to nine times from kindergarten to graduation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">For many military families, school shopping can be extra challenging, often coming right after a major move while dealing with deployments or training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">Brittany Garfield, a military wife and mother of four, said Saturday\u2019s event \u201cmakes a difference\u201d for her family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\">\u201cPeople like Operation Homefront are dedicating their time and volunteering to provide for us military families, and we just appreciate it,\u201d Garfield said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dist__Box-sc-1fnzlkn-0 dist__TextBase-sc-1fnzlkn-3 bYFsJw cuqaEv article-text\"><b>Read also:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 One national nonprofit is helping local military children start the school year off strong. On&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":97192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,13915,23773,1802,63835,62968,7202,7203,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-97191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-back-to-school","tag-ksatkids","tag-military","tag-military-city-usa","tag-operation-homefront","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114926255957294198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}