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School kits

School kits are 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, Afghanistan, Kenya, Swaziland, Jordan, Zambia and to poorly funded schools in the United States and Canada.

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  • 4 spiral or perforated notebooks (about 21.5cm x 27cm / 8.5in x 10.5in and 70 sheets U.S. / 140 pages in Canada, see below for more info) 
  • 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). You may sew the bag yourself  (instructions), request bags from an MCC collection center, or donate contents that we will place in a bag.

Drop off completed school kits at one of the drop-off locations in Canada or the U.S.

Notebook instructions: 70-80 sheets U.S./140-160 pages Canada
What's the difference between sheets and pages? In the U.S., notebook size is usually listed in sheets, which are actual sheets of paper. In Canada, notebook size is listed in pages, numbered like a book, with 2 pages per sheet of paper. A notebook numbered by pages needs to be double the number of a notebook numbered by sheets, so that the notebooks are a similar size.