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Staff of Assembly Member Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas distirbute free backpacks in August 2025. <\/p>\n
Photo via office of Assemblymember Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas.<\/p>\n
Assemblymember Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas is partnering with a number of local elected officials and organizations to host backpack giveaways for children across the 34th District this week.\n<\/p>\n
Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas will give away over 1,000 backpacks across four community events in her district, including giveaways in Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, Corona and Woodside.\n<\/p>\n
The Hispanic Federation, Laborers Local 1010 and MetroPlus Health have teamed up with Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas for each giveaway, which will present one backpack to each school-aged child while supplies last.<\/p>\n
The back-to-school giveaways will commence with an event on 34th Avenue between 93rd and 94th Streets in Jackson Heights between 3-5 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 11. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Council Member Shekar Krishnan and Assemblymember Catalina Cruz have partnered with Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas for the giveaway, while organizations such as the USTA, Charles B. Wang Community Health Center and Korean American Family Services Center will also be on hand.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, Aug. 12, Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas will partner with Ocasio-Cortez and Council Member Tiffany Cab\u00e1n to host a giveaway at Gorman Playground in East Elmhurst between 3 and 5 p.m. The giveaway, which takes place on 25th Avenue between 84th and 85th Streets, is also supported by the Hispanic Information and Telecommunications Network.<\/p>\n
Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas will host a giveaway in Corona between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 13, partnering with Cruz, Ocasio-Cortez, Queens Borough President Donovan Richards and Council Member Shanel Thomas-Henry. The event will take place at Corona Plaza at 40-04 National St. and is also supported by the New York City District Council of Carpenters.<\/p>\n
The final giveaway will take place in Woodside<\/a> on Friday, Aug. 14, in partnership with Sunnyside Community Services<\/a> and U.S. Rep. Nydia Vel\u00e1zquez. The event, which runs from noon until 1:30 p.m., will take place at the Sunnyside Community Services Cornerstone Program at NYCHA Woodside Houses at 50-19 Broadway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Staff of Assembly Member Jessica Gonz\u00e1lez-Rojas distirbute free backpacks in August 2025. Photo via office of Assemblymember Jessica…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":993429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,15082,301401,13915,47037,398170,7510,257202,94713,21608,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,398171,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,398172],"class_list":["post-993428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-aoc","tag-assembly-member-jessica-gonzu00e1lez-rojas","tag-back-to-school","tag-corona","tag-corona-plaza","tag-daily-newsletter","tag-east-elmhurst","tag-free-backpacks-nyc","tag-jackson-heights","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-sunnyside-community-services","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-woodside-houses"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117072952517813998","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993428","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=993428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/993429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}