For the ninth year, McDonald’s has fulfilled one of its core values and extended its reach beyond the golden arches above its doors and into neighboring communities to equip students headed back to school with some of the tools necessary to function in the classrooms. Through a longstanding partnership with St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Kirk, students residing in the Bains and Grants Town communities have been recipients of backpacks as many of them are members of the Kirk’s Sunday school. This year Commonwealth Bank also joined forces, earmarking 150 of its 10,000 backpacks distributed annually to the cause. Annually, McDonald’s donates over 600 backpacks.

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