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Backpack Buddies Home About Donate News Contact More BACKPACKBUDDIES Help our nonprofitdonate backpacks filled with school supplies to students in need. ABOUT US In the spring of 2010 nineyearold Lucia Hoerr 39loosha her39 was shopping for extra school supplies with her mom and older sister. After Lucia spent over an hour excitedly picking out her fun new notebooks and colorful erasers Lucia39s mom mentioned that many families in their community probably couldn39t afford the expensive backpack and school supplies required for backtoschool. For the past couple of years Lucia had been looking for ways to give back to people in her town of Charlottesville Virginia.