Operation School Bell®

Operation School Bell is a program dedicated toward helping prepare children for school who demonstrate financial need.  We promote self-esteem to students from kindergarten through sixth grade with new clothes (uniforms for uniform schools), health kits and school supplies.   Volunteers from Assistance League have fitted close to 1000 students annually since 1969.  Qualified students are served through referrals from personnel in nineteen schools of the Santa Barbara, Hope and Carpinteria school districts.  In addition, Las Aletas, an auxiliary branch of Assistance League, serves 600 students from ten schools in the Goleta School district.  In 2007, we began an outreach program with the Santa Maria school district which included fitting over 300 more students from thirteen schools in the Santa Maria-Guadalupe school district.