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Charity provides school sweatshirts

Monday 13th of November 2006 11:20:00 AM

A US-based charity is providing free school uniforms, including trousers, skirts and sweatshirts to children, it has emerged.

Operation School Bell is a St Louis project to bring clothing donations to children whose parents are not able to purchase uniforms, reports the St Louis Post Dispatch.

The charity has been working with children from selected schools in the area for 17 years and using its Assistance League offices, fits children for sweatshirts, shirts and other items of uniform.

Alloysius, one of seven children and a pupil at Shepard Elementary School, had been attending school in jeans and t-shirts until he was given clothes by the league.

Teachers had repeatedly asked him to conform to school standards.

"I told them I would get one someday," he said.

This year, the volunteer-run group will spend approximately $170,000 (£89,000) distributing uniforms to some 2,200 students, president Linda Lee told the newspaper.

In related news, Hunslet Moor Primary School in Leeds is set to donate free sweatshirts to its pupils, reports the Yorkshire Evening Post.

The move comes as a gesture of goodwill to parents following the introduction of a compulsory uniform at the school.

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