Time for School Kits
I've blogged about these folks before, and here I go again!
The Ten Thousand Villages are asking people to get involved with their annual "School Kits" project again, and help to send much needed supplies to teachers and students primarily in areas hit by war and natural disasters. That means that this year your kit could end up in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Nicaragua or Haiti, or a poorly funded school right here in North America. Your kit would become one of the thousands delivered each year by the Mennonite Central Committee, the stores' parent organization.
You can toddle off to your nearest Ten Thousand Villages store and collect a fabric bag to fill or you can make your own, following instructions to specified dimensions. To find one of the 43 stores in Canada, click here. To locate one of the 117 retail stores in the Stated, follow this link.
The good people organizing this project ask that you limit your generosity to the following items:
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)
4 unsharpened #2 pencils
1 ruler (flat, flexible plastic; indicating both 30cm and 12")
12 coloured pencils (in packaging)
1 large pencil eraser
Include only brand new items.
If you think you'd like to make your own bag, or if you'd like to investigate their other kit ideas - relief kits, sewing kits, health kits and newborn kits - take a look here.
This could be a great project for families to do together, providing an opportunity for the kids to share their good fortune. It could be a great term-opener for an ambitious teacher who wants to kick their classroom year off in a spirit of global citizenship. Throw in a geography lesson or two about some of the countries on the receiving end, a history lesson, or even an economics lesson and you've got the stuff of which great learning experiences are made.
Use the project for a Sunday school class, or a woman's group - it won't matter what angle you approach this one from, you're going to come away feeling good. Just make sure your kits are ready and dropped off before the end of September.
The Ten Thousand Villages are asking people to get involved with their annual "School Kits" project again, and help to send much needed supplies to teachers and students primarily in areas hit by war and natural disasters. That means that this year your kit could end up in Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Nicaragua or Haiti, or a poorly funded school right here in North America. Your kit would become one of the thousands delivered each year by the Mennonite Central Committee, the stores' parent organization.
You can toddle off to your nearest Ten Thousand Villages store and collect a fabric bag to fill or you can make your own, following instructions to specified dimensions. To find one of the 43 stores in Canada, click here. To locate one of the 117 retail stores in the Stated, follow this link.
The good people organizing this project ask that you limit your generosity to the following items:
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)
4 unsharpened #2 pencils
1 ruler (flat, flexible plastic; indicating both 30cm and 12")
12 coloured pencils (in packaging)
1 large pencil eraser
Include only brand new items.
If you think you'd like to make your own bag, or if you'd like to investigate their other kit ideas - relief kits, sewing kits, health kits and newborn kits - take a look here.
This could be a great project for families to do together, providing an opportunity for the kids to share their good fortune. It could be a great term-opener for an ambitious teacher who wants to kick their classroom year off in a spirit of global citizenship. Throw in a geography lesson or two about some of the countries on the receiving end, a history lesson, or even an economics lesson and you've got the stuff of which great learning experiences are made.
Use the project for a Sunday school class, or a woman's group - it won't matter what angle you approach this one from, you're going to come away feeling good. Just make sure your kits are ready and dropped off before the end of September.
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