I want to help provide supplies for kids. I feel bad because I am fortunate enough to buy my stuff so how can I help kids in my community?
I am doing the same thing for kids that are less fortunate. You can contact the school district, local police and fire departments, churches around the neighborhood or even the shelter because there children do live there.
Maybe next year or so, make flyers with your information and hand them to the churches stating that you are having a scholarship and the prize will be school supplies but you need to write a 1/2 page essay as to "why you need back to school supplies" then when you read them all you can determine who needs them.
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In January we distributed school supplies to the schools and kids of Armenia Bonito in La Ceiba, Honduras.
In Honduras the average person makes less then $3,000 a year and the unemployment rate is above 30%. Because of this and the fact that free and compulsory education stops at the sixth grade, only 1/3rd of the kids attend school beyond the sixth grade. In an effort to make education a reality in Armenia Bonito we asked our friends and supporters to send us school supplies for the school year that begins in February of 2010. We were able to distribute over 20,000 school supplies to over 400 kids, three schools, three churches and an orphanage.
