Mennonite
Central
Committee

School Kits

School kits are our most requested item. They are given primarily to refugee and displaced children, helping students and teachers add some normalcy to disrupted lives. Also areas that experienced natural disasters receive them with joy. MCC sends school kits for children in places such as Bosnia, Haiti, Honduras, Iraq, Liberia, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine and to poorly funded schools in Canada and the United States. In 2006, MCC sent more than 151,000 school kits.

School kit shipments

 

Contents (NEW items only)

• 4 spiral or perforated notebooks (about 21.5cm x 27cm / 8.5" x 10.5" and 70-80 sheets U.S. / 140-160 pages in Canada, more info)
• 4 unsharpened pencils
• 1 ruler (flat, flexible plastic; indicating both 30cm and 12")
• 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 (How to make Kit Bags), 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.