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How This Delaware County, Pennsylvania, Nonprofit Is Helping Teachers Fill Their Classrooms With School Supplies

"We have 150 orders in the pipeline that we're trying to get out as quickly as possible because school is starting," Harman said.

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August 28, 2024

FOLCROFT, Pa. (CBS) – The first day of school is less than a week away for some school districts in Delaware County. One nonprofit is helping teachers get their classrooms ready before students arrive.

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Teachers' Teammates operates a 3,000-square-foot warehouse in Folcroft that contains just about everything an educator needs to supply a classroom, including folders, crayons, notebooks and backpacks. The nonprofit's founder and executive director, Raelyn Harman, is in charge of getting those supplies into teachers' hands.

"We have 150 orders in the pipeline that we're trying to get out as quickly as possible because school is starting," Harman said.

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