‘Reflections’ Archive

Reflecting Back and Looking Forward

For ten years Robin Mednick and the Pencils for Kids team have been delivering education, healthcare and hope to the community of Liboré, Niger. It all started in 2005 when Robin learned from Dan Galbraith, that 30 children in a classroom in Niger were all sharing one pencil. She sprang into action and immediately set […]

What an amazing year it’s been!

Thanks to your support, Pencils for Kids has made great strides this past year enabling the women and students in the community of Liboré to become self-sustaining.

Starting the new year with something awesome…

Thank you for your tremendous support over the course of the past year enabling us to continue our programs in Liboré. We are delighted that Katarina chose to highlight our work on Project for Awesome 2013. (Project for Awesome is held annually on Dec 17-18 , where thousands of people post videos advocating for charities) […]

Thoughts about 2011

It has been a year of progress for Pencils for Kids despite very challenging economic times. We continued to build meaningful relationships with our partners that will definitely have a lasting impact on the people of Liboré, Niger. P4K has developed an approach which balances direct funding and sponsorship for a small number of model programmes […]