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Back-to-School Supply Drive


  • Multiple Locations New Orleans (map)

Help local students start the school year with confidence

Our chapter is hosting a Back-to-School Supply Drive benefiting the New Orleans Women & Children's Shelter. We're collecting essential school supplies and personal care items, including clear or mesh backpacks, notebooks, pencils, crayons, glue sticks, folders, tissues, disinfecting wipes, hand sanitizer, soap, paper towels, binders, calculators, and more. Drop off at any of our 13 convenient collection locations. 

Donations List

🎒 TOP NEEDS ✏️

  • Clear / mesh backpacks

  • Composition notebooks

  • Spiral notebooks

  • No. 2 pencils

  • Erasers

  • Crayons

  • Colored pencils

  • Markers

  • Glue sticks

  • Plastic folders

CLASSROOM + PERSONAL CARE

  • Clorox wipes

  • Tissues

  • Pocket hand sanitizer (60%+ alcohol)

  • Liquid hand soap

  • Paper towels

  • Blue + black pens

  • Highlighters

  • Loose-leaf paper

  • Index cards

TOOLS (OLDER STUDENTS)

  • Rulers

  • Scissors (safety + standard)

  • Pencil sharpeners

  • Three-ring binders

  • Subject dividers

  • Scientific calculators

  • Protractors

 

Drop Off Locations

BYWATER BAKERY / 3624 Dauphine St. • NOLA

CHICKEN SALAD CHICK / 3005 Veterans Blvd. • Metairie / 1522 Gause Blvd. • Slidell

HEN HOUSE / 938 Hancock St. • Gretna

HOTEL DE LA MONNAIE / 405 Esplanade Ave. • NOLA

LA BOULANGERIE / 4600 Magazine St. • NOLA

LA MADELEINE / 300 Severn Ave. • Metairie / 601 S. Carrollton Ave. • NOLA / 1200 S. Clearview Pkwy • Harahan

NOLITA BAKERY / 3201 Orleans Ave. • NOLA

TARTINE / 7217 Perrier St. • NOLA

THE PURPLE TIGER BOUTIQUE / 3250 Severn Ave. • Metairie

HONEY’S / 2400 St. Claude Ave. • NOLA

 

Drive hosted by Les Dames d’Escoffier International New Orleans Chapter.
Collection boxes generously sponsored by Fill The Needs.