Hi Y’all,
As most of you know by now, I’m stationed in Mosul Iraq and we’ve got an education problem (like most of the middle east). See, there are schools over here and some of them have like 800 kids, 4 teachers and 10 books (this is a number from an actual school and I’m sure these numbers are reflected across our footprint). Anyway, I’m asking for help.
Can you round up pencils, crayons and kids books (text books, abc’s, learn to count, coloring books, anything at all) (not sure if you can find any in Arabic but that would help tremendously, too, as the literacy rate is abysmal).
The only way we have a chance in changing the hearts and minds in this region is through education and showing the children that there is a better way. I figure we can start small with coloring books of kids playing instead of throwing rocks, you know?
Soccer balls, stuffed animals, all of that sort of thing would be greatly appreciated. So can you all pool together and ship as much of those types of things as you can?
Anything you can do to help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you for your support!
