Volunteers Distributing Mittens To Dearborn Students

DEARBORN, MI — Students around Dearborn will be equipped with some new mittens this month, thanks to a local volunteer project.

Mittens for Detroit will visit William Ford Elementary School in Dearborn to distribute mittens and gloves to students. It's set to be the first of 12 Dearborn Public Schools that volunteers will visit to distribute some 6,200 pairs of mittens to students. It happens Feb. 13.

The volunteers are Fiat Chrysler Automobiles employees called through the company's Motor Citizens volunteer program. They will join Mittens for Detroit in distributing gloves and mittens to the students.

Founded in 2010, Mittens for Detroit is a nonprofit that collects, purchases and distributes new mittens and gloves to children, teens and adults in Detroit and other underserved cities. This is the fourth year of partnership between Mittens for Detroit and Dearborn Public Schools.

William Ford Elementary has 640 students, more than 90 percent of whom are low-income, the district says.