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Successful Ongoing and Completed Projects
Thanks to your donations, Project School Supplies has evolved into much more than supplying schools with educational materials and building improvements. Here’s what has been achieved to date:
– Built a house and started a garden for three orphaned children whose mud house recently collapsed.
– Repaired and restored more than 30 village schools with such aid as putting on roofs than had blown apart in storms, building water storage units, installing bathrooms, painting walls, putting in electricity and repairing window screens
– Supplied more than 30 schools with didactic materials, games, paper and general supplies
- Initiated vitamin and anti-parasitic distribution programs in five rural schools, which continues to expand.
- Established a visiting doctor program for six rural schools, which continues to expand.
- Developed and implemented hygiene workshops in nine village schools.
– Set up a dental hygiene program including workshops and donations of over 750 toothbrushes and tubes of toothpaste.
- Built beds and supplied bedding for 18 children who had been sleeping on dirt floors.
- Created an annual Christmas basket donations program for 40 struggling families.
- Completed the building of a new school at El Malcote village.
– Set up a building block program where we get scraps of wood are donated from local carpenters, youth from financially challenged families are paid to sand them and the blocks are then donated to the village kindergartens.
– Started a scholarship fund for children with good grades who need school supplies.
– Bought school uniforms for more than 25 children to enable them to attend school.
– Coordinated a nutrition and vegetable garden program in various impoverished communities.
– Started an emergency grocery delivery program for families in urgent need.
- Set up a clothing donation program.
– Adopted 2 street dogs named Betty and Freddy
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Thanks so much to everyone for the donations for the Ramirez childrens’ house. The house is now finished and the children are incredibly grateful for their new home! Please view the whole story and all the photos here.
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