Programme 05 — Educational kits
A child without a notebook is not a child without ability.
The short list a school gives us every June: a bag, a slate, notebooks, pens, a geometry box, shoes.
Every June the same children arrive without the material the class requires. They are not lazy and they are not rare: a single parent, a grandmother raising three children, a child in a home.
We ask the school for the list, buy it locally, and hand it over in the classroom — so the child is not singled out and the teacher does not have to buy it themselves.
How it is run
The school gives the list, we buy locally, and the head teacher signs for what was delivered. No photographs of individual children without the school's consent.
What it includes
The short list, agreed with the school, the home or the household.
How you can help
Three ways that actually move this programme forward.
Sponsor a kit
One child's full list for a year — bag, books, stationery, shoes.
Give in bulk
Notebooks by the hundred are cheaper than by the dozen.
Adopt a class
The whole class's material, every June.
Write to [email protected] or sign up as a volunteer. We answer within three working days.
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