Humans
Learning support
A school year stalls on small things: a notebook, a pen, a geometry box. Each year the foundation sets out to place those basics with students who need them.
Why this work
Fees are discussed often. The everyday cost of paper and pens is easier to miss, and it falls hardest on families already choosing between the shop and the kitchen. A student should not have to borrow a page in order to attend.
Material helps only if it is usable and if it reaches the student it was meant for. We work with schools and local volunteers so distribution is orderly, and so new stationery is handed over respectfully, not tossed from a vehicle.
What we provide
The tools of a classroom
Notebooks, long books, drawing books, pens, pencils, erasers, sharpeners, and, where the class needs them, geometry materials. The list is set with the school, not guessed from a distance.
A yearly rhythm
The aim is a distribution each year, in time for the term, with room for a school that asks between those drives.
New and fit to use
Students receive new stationery. Used clothes are a different programme. We do not mix the two, and we do not pass on leftovers that a child cannot write with.
A quiet handover
Names and need stay with the school and the foundation. A distribution is not a stage. We would rather a student leave with a full bag than with a photograph of the moment.
At a glance
- For whom
- School students whose families cannot readily buy the year's stationery.
- Through whom
- Schools and community volunteers who know the students.
- How to ask
- A teacher or a local volunteer writes with the rough number of students and the classes.