BUILDING SCHOOL SUPPLY KITS
“GIVE A HELP TO EDUCATION, OUR FUTURE DEPENDS ON IT.”
BUILDING SCHOOL SUPPLY KITS:
The most efficient and effective way to help Iraqi children is to create School Supply Kits which will be distributed to each student. Each Kit contains basic, badly-needed items that can make a world of difference to a child heading to school. Assembling standardized Kits ensures that each child receives the same number of the most needed items, facilitates customs clearance, and relieves our volunteers and soldiers of the time-consuming and labor intensive process of sorting and allocating random donated items. Kits are wildly popular among Iraqis, who often request them.
Assemble each Kit according to the following list of items. Please enclose NO additional items and be sure that all items are new and unused. Each Kit should contain:
SCHOOL SUPPLY KIT:
- One pair of blunt-end scissors
- One 12-inch ruler with metric markings
- 12 new pencils with erasers
- One small pencil sharpener
- One large eraser
- One box of colored pencils (Crayons melt in the Iraqi summer heat!)
- One package of notebook paper
- One composition book
- Three folders with inside pockets
- One zippered pencil bag
Pack only the listed supplies in a 2-gallon sized zipper seal plastic bag.
If you would also like to send sports equipment or stuffed animals, please feel free to do so. Appropriate sports equipment might be soccer balls, jump ropes, and frisbees. Please send all balls deflated for air-transport and include a small hand pump for re-inflating. We do accept a number of items other than Kits: Our current urgent-need list includes: blankets, backpacks, shoes and tarps.
Please use discretion in choosing your supplies, sports equipment, and stuffed animals. Avoid items that are religious, depict war or conflict, or are strongly gender or age specific. Please be sensitive to the fact that you are sending items into a culture less exposed to television and video games, and under emotional strain.
CONTRIBUTE!