Clemmons Moravian hosts ‘Empty Lockers’ project

Published 12:00 am Thursday, August 23, 2018

For the past five years, Clemmons Moravian has held its “Empty Lockers Project to benefit the students at Easton Elementary School in Winston-Salem.

Clemmons Moravian provides Easton Elementary with the primary school supplies needed throughout the school year. The church also helps to furnish clothes such as coats, hats, gloves, boys and girls pants, shirts, socks, and shoes.

During special occasions such as Valentine’s Day, Easter, fall festival, Thanksgiving and Christmas, the church also provides cookies and snacks for each student, along with the teachers.

There are more than 600 students attending Easton Elementary and the school is 100 percent free lunch, so Clemmons Moravian realizes the many needs of its students.

This year Clemmons Moravian delivered:

• 163 spiral notebooks
• 40 packs of notebook paper
• 546 composition books
• 80 bookbags
• 38 boxes of Kleenex
• 9 packs of easers
• 21 bottles of glue
• 203 glue sticks
• 6 packs of subject dividers
• 10 rulers
• 7 boxes Ziploc bags
• 26 containers of Clorox wipes
• 32 bottles of hand sanitizer
• 26 boxes of colored markers
• 1,099 pencils
• 12 binders
• 3 watercolor sets
• 2 packs index cards
• 7 packs pens
• 26 boxes colored pencils
• 46 pair scissors
• 72 boxes of crayons
• 115 folders
• 6 tubes of toothpaste
• 17 toothbrushes
• 48 bookmarks
• 17 highlighters
• 2 packs post-it notes
• 7 pencil boxes
• 6 pencil sharpeners