MOMS Provide Back-To-School Items For Danbury Child

By Kendra Bobowick

The toy oven door slammed, spilling a tray full of plastic, decorated cookies. Play cabinets banged shut, opened, and crashed shut again, sending sharp echoes across the hardwood floor. Excited voices rose as young mothers talked over the children’s noise, and watched out for crawlers like Cooper Costallos, who worked his way toward a rattle. Although too young to recognize the bustle around them, Payton Camp and Emily Sachs enjoyed playtime in the corner of the kitchen.

Shouting burst from the den: “You’ll rip it!”

Katherine Brooks tugged at the corner of a laminated sign, hoping to help display a crayon-drawn message “Back to School Fundraiser, MOMS (moms offering moms support) Club of Brookfield East/Newtown.”

A handful of moms and children (many of the youngsters in diapers) filled Sandy Hook resident Sandra Camp’s house, all members who participate in the local club that provides support and activities for stay-at-home or part-time working mothers and their children, said Jessica Tendler Sachs.

On Tuesday, August 10, Ms Camp hosted members of the group to assemble donations for a Danbury child in need of back-to-school supplies.

“We adopted a child and collected items for him,” Ms Camp explained. Behind her on a coffee table were books, backpacks, pencils, markers, crayons, pencil boxes, scissors, and more. Donations will be made through The Volunteer Center of Western Connecticut.