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Pencils for Kids featured on www.philanthroper.com Wednesday, February 15th, 2012!

There is a great website called www.philanthroper.com that encourages people to give $1 -$5 for different causes each day, causes that have been fully researched and vetted in advance.  P4K has been chosen to be the featured charity tomorrow, Wednesday, February 15th, 2012 to raise money for notebooks and textbooks for the children in Liboré!! […]

Teacher training begins for the Farmers of the Future!

From the BLOG of our partners on the Farmers of the Future program, Eliminate Poverty Now (www.eliminatepovertynow.org): Monday, January 30, 2012 Farmers of the Future Takes Root This week was a major milestone in the Farmers of the Future project, as we began training the teachers from the three pilot schools. Farmers of the Future, […]

Students from Redstone Public School raise money and awareness for P4K!

A letter written by students about their P4K initiative they started at their school.    ”  One day in late October, our teacher Mr. Hynd told us about a charity; Pencils for Kids. Pencils for Kids is a Canadian charity that provides classroom supplies, programs, libraries, and schools for communities in Niger, Africa. They try to create a […]

A 12 year-old student’s perspective as shared with her classmates

Imagine, you are learning and you have one pencil for the whole class or you are sharing an eraser with five other children and it’s smaller than a penny! Imagine no desks, no chairs, no black boards…. Imagine having no school supplies. Sure you are thinking “Boy, that will never happen.” But, you are all […]