School kits are Mennonite Central Committee(MCC)'s most-requested item. Notebooks and pencils become treasures to families who struggle to afford basic school supplies. School kits are also given to refugee and displaced children, helping students and teachers add some normalcy to disrupted lives. They are frequently requested after natural disasters. MCC sends school kits to places including Iraq, Nicaragua, North Korea and to poorly funded schools in Canada and the United States.
- 4 spiral or perforated notebooks (about 21.5cm x 27cm / 8.5in x 10.5in and 70 sheets U.S)
- 4 unsharpened pencils
- 1 ruler (flat, flexible plastic; indicating both 30cm and 12in)
- 12 colored pencils (in packaging)
- 1 large pencil eraser
School kits are distributed in a useful double drawstring cloth bag (28cm x 40.6cm / 11in x 16in). To see where they have been shipped in previous years, check out http://www.mcc.org/system/files/material-resources/Oct%2011%20School%20Kits.pdf
As a pack, our goal is to put together 50 school kids. Each Den should try to collect enough of their assigned item below for 50 kits. The goal is to put together the kits at the December Pack meeting.
Tigers (Grade 1)— 200 Unsharpened Pencils (we have 32)
Wolves ( Grade 2)— (50) packs of 12 Colored Pencils (??)
Bears (Grade 3)— 200 Notebooks (we have 8)
Webelos 1 (Grade 4)— 50 Rulers (complete)
Webelos 2 (grade 5)— 50 Erasers (complete)
Please forward and coordinate with your Dens to make this happen. It is Pack 184's Christmas gift to those in need.
