School Supplies

Above: Mike, Jamie, Sean, and Erin sorting school supplies.

Over the Christmas holiday, our team collected school supplies in the US to give to school kids here in Honduras. In the fall, our team made contacts with local schools and communities where kids were in need of school supplies. In most of these areas, the children have little or no supplies, no even the basics of a pencil and paper to write on. Our goal was to collect enough supplies that all of the kids in Armenia Bonito, a poor community outside of La Ceiba, would have enough supplies for school this year.

The Lord provided an abundance of supplies and last week we were able to pass them out to over 300 children and their schools and churches.

Here is the final tally of what we were able to give away:

4500 pencils
4450 crayons
1800 coloring pencils
1600 pens
860 markers
300 notebooks
280 glue sticks
200 pencil sharpeners

Also, our teammate also made a video of the distribution on YouTube.