By Retta Jitner | Founder & CEO
WIth the funds donated from this site and Pencils For Kids, Inc. annual Golf Tournament in LA, we are proud to say 500 Kids in Myanmar recieved their backpacks and school uniforms in April!
Along with 15 volunteers, we packed up the backpacks with school supplies that were donated by our partners here in the U.S., and those purchased in the local community of Yangon. In 2 hours we had stuffed and boxed up 500 backpacks for delivery in the Yangon province.
For the next two days, 10 volunteers in the PFK team delivered our gifts to the children. We visited 1 local community school in Bago, 3 orphan homes in Hmawbi, an orphan home in Yangon, and 2 monastic nunneries in Thanlyin. Each child recieved a backpack filled with school supplies and a new school uniform or monastic robes. The children also had their photo taken for this very special day!
The beginning of the monsoon rain began on our final day, but that did not deter the PFK Team! The children recieving their gifts are our first priority!
We are thrilled to have met our goal for 2018....and now on to 2019!
Go PFK!
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