WHAT'S NEW
Baksheesh
is collecting school supplies for needy Third World children for the
14th year in a row.
Last year, people donated 602 school kits. Mennonite Central Committee,
a nonprofit relief and development organization, put them together with
others and sent 29,860 to children in Honduras and 5445 to Afghanistan.
Another 110,000 school kits donated at churches and fair trade stores
across the US and Canada went to 13 other countries.
This year, school supplies collected at Baksheesh will go to Bosnia.
Basic school supplies can make the difference between going to school
and staying home. We are collecting the school kits during the month
of August at both stores.
Each school kit consists of a drawstring bag filled with specific supplies.
You can get empty bags at either store, fill them and return them, or
simply bring the supplies to the store. Cash or check donations are
also welcome.
Each kit must contain: four spiral notebooks about 8.5" x 10.5"
70-80 pages each, four unsharpened #2 pencils, one 12" plastic
ruler with inch and metric scales, one large pencil eraser and one box
of 12 colored pencils (no crayons please). All school kits must have
the same contents, so when they are distributed, each child gets the
same things. When people donate additional items, we will make sure
they are distributed to other needy children.
School kits, supplies or cash donations should be dropped off at either
Baksheesh store by Wednesday, September 1, during store hours.
A young girl in Honduras uses her donated school supplies