Serve | Project Back-to-School Backpacks

When I was in school, I was…well…kind of nerdy.

I know you’re shocked.

I looked forward to the start of school every year, and I loved getting new school supplies. I mean, I GEEKED OUT over school supplies. Possibly all the way through college. Who doesn’t love a new notebook?

Well, many children living in poverty don’t have the chance to geek out over school supplies, because they can’t afford them. It  makes it much harder to succeed in school when you don’t even have the basic tools needed. That’s where the Monkey Do Project comes in.

We need your help to send 50 backpacks full of school supplies to Clay County, West Virginia. You can find more information on the Monkey Do Project website, but here is what we need:

25 School Age Backpack Donations

A backpack filled with any/all of the following:

• Blessing Bag filled with hygiene products for kids
• Glue sticks
• Scissors (blunt ended for younger kids, pointed for older ones)
• Ballpoint pens
• No. 2 pencils (plain, no designs)
• Colored pencils
• Crayons
• Pencil sharpener (hand-held with a top to collect shavings)
• Large pink eraser (old-fashioned kind)
• Four-ounce bottle of white glue
• Spiral-bound or composition notebooks
• Three-ring binder
•  Loose-leaf notebook paper (wide-ruled paper) inside of pocket folders (plain, colored)
• Ruler with English and metric measurements
• Scotch tape
• Small stapler

25 Preschool Backpack Donations

• Blessing Bag filled with hygiene products for young kids
• Stuffed Animal
• Coloring Book
• Crayons
• Glue sticks
• Scissors (blunt ended)
• #2 Pencils (plain, no designs)
• Pencil sharpener (hand-held with a top to collect shavings)
• Large pink eraser (old-fashioned kind)
• Four-ounce bottle of white glue
• Scotch tape

Donations can be sent to: Monkey Do Project, Suite 78335, Indianapolis, IN 46278

Don’t have time to fill a backpack, but want to help? We are seeking  $30 donations that will allow us to purchase a backpack and fill it with school supplies.

Donations are needed by August 1st, 2012 to allow the backpacks to arrive before school starts.

Please consider helping in any way you can. If you can’t afford to donate or fill a backpack, consider sharing this post with your friends and on your social networks.