This month, we ask you to gather school supplies. With donations, The Mennonite Central Committee puts together school kits and sends them to where they are needed most. We will try to collect and give as many school kits as we can.
"School kits are our most requested item. They are given primarily to refugee and displaced children, helping students and teachers add some normalcy to disrupted lives. Also areas that experienced natural disasters receive them with joy. MCC sends school kits for children in places such as Bosnia, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Liberia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine and to poorly funded schools in Canada and the United States. In 2004, MCC sent more than 90,000 school kits" (Mennonite Central Committee, 2007).
The items that make up these school kits are:
~ 4 spiral or perforated notebooks (about 21.5cm x 27cm / 8.5" x 10.5" and 70-80 sheets U.S. / 140-160 pages in Canada, more info)
~ 4 unsharpened pencils
~ 1 ruler (flat, flexible plastic; indicating both 30cm and 12")
~ 12 colored pencils (in packaging)
~ 1 large pencil eraser
What we are doing to gather donations:
Towards the end of this month, I (Amanda) will be hosting a party at my place to collect change and/or some of the school supplies listed above. To encourage my friends to make donations, there will be tickets handed out to those who are generous. Once everyone has arrived, a winner will be announced.
Please take this idea and do something similar!
To learn more about the MCC's school kits, visit their website at www.mcc.org/kits/school/
Happy Donating!
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