Annual ACCESS School Supply Drive Information Page |
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| Recent Updates | ||||||
| The Fourth Annual School Supply Drive: August 22 - 30, 2009 | ||||||
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This year's end-of-summer School Supply Drive will began on the weekend of August 22 at multiple locations. Donations benefited school children in developing countries such as Honduras and Tanzania, Africa. To ship the supplies, the ACCESS School Supply Drive delivers supplies to Canadian Food for Children who distributes them (click for shipping details). Fair Trade products such as chocolate and sugar were also sold at the event. Donations of new school supplies as well as monetary donations were to be dropped of between August 22 - August 30, 2009. Donations can be made online here. Collection Weekends: Item Drop-Off Locations: |
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| Greetings from ACCESS: Allowing Children a Chance at Education! | ||||||
In Canada, school students often buy brand new supplies every September. Many new or gently used pens, rulers, notebooks, paper, school bags, crayons, paint sets and more are left unused. When purchasing new supplies for yourself or your children this year, please consider adding some extra items to your cart for students in the developing world who may have very limited access to these items. Donations of new school supplies will be accepted during the ACCESS School Supply Drive, and include basic materials such as pencils and pens, pencil crayons, sharpeners, erasers, lined paper, notebooks, scissors, rulers, and more. Below is a more comprehensive list of supplies.
Donations for the fourth annual ACCESS School Supply Drive will will benefit school children in developing countries including Tanzania, Africa. The School Supply Drive will support the generous work of Dr. Andrew Simone, founder of Canadian Food for Children, who will be shipping and delivering the supplies. To RSVP and share this event, please visit the event page on Facebook by clicking here. You can also donate to our cause online securely through PayPal. Please click here to visit the donate page to make your supportive contribution today! Thank you in advance for your support! |
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| Bring Change! School Supply Drive Promotional Video 2009 | ||||||
| Audio Interview on Radio Teopoli | ||||||
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Listen to the radio interview with Maxine Bower, ACCESS Promotions Coordinator speaking about the 2009 School Supply Drive on July 16 on Radio Teopoli AM 530. | |||||
| Annual School Supply Drive Success | ||||||
Over the last 4 years, with local student volunteers and members of the Youth Ministry at St. Marguerite d’Youville Parish, the ACCESS School Supply Drives have run during the final weeks of August. “Donating supplies directly helps make citizens aware that they can in fact make a difference in the world,” student Daniel Francavilla explained. “As well, I think it’s a great time to remind ourselves of those less fortunate, while we do our back-to-school shopping.” Others prefer to make monetary donations, which amounted to between $800 and $1,700 annually. Funds are spent to further develop projects funded by ACCESS, such as purchasing school uniforms for students in the Dominican Republic, improving school facilities in Colombia and supporting a Haitian student's University education. All collected supplies are sent to developing countries in need, such as a school in Honduras with over 2000 students. The supplies are shipped through Dr. Andrew Simone’s Canadian Food for Children, a charitable organization whose warehouse is located in Toronto. In the News: Articles and Video |
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