Going back to school will be a bit easier for many children in San Diego County, thanks to the hard work of volunteers from Friends of Children United Society (FOCUS).

FOCUS is a nonprofit organization based in Coronado that provides hope and help to children in need in San Diego County. FOCUS is unique in that it does not give money to any of the children’s agencies or individual children that it supports. Instead, the FOCUS Board identifies specific needs, and volunteer members purchase and deliver items, thereby eliminating administrative costs and enabling urgent needs to be met on short notice.

Among those needs are new backpacks and school supplies for kids who otherwise would not have them. Every summer, FOCUS assembles a group of volunteers to sort hundreds of backpacks and assem

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