Goods for Good Distribution to Standard 8

As we mentioned a few weeks back in “Can You Spare a Pen or Paper?” we’ve been thinking more about supporting local schools with in-kind donations as a way of helping children while strengthening local institutions.

Our first project of this type was successful when Melissa and Leora conducted a teacher’s training program at St. Mathias sponsored by Goods for Good. In order to ensure that the teachers could maximize what they learned during the training, Good for Good donated pens and notebooks to the teachers to use for lesson planning during the holiday, as well as additional school supplies to be used for the preparation of classroom teaching aides such as posters and signs. If it hadn’t been for the donation the teachers would have had to choose between using their small salaries for the resources and having none at all. We felt it was essential to supplement the training with the resources necessary to implement the lessons learned.

Our second distribution came this week and was also at St. Mathias. We’ve been teaching the Standard 8 children as they’ve been preparing for their Secondary School entrance exam. During our teaching we’ve been noticing the students have been stretching their scarce resources about as far as possible. Given their impending exam we felt that searching for a scrap of paper to practice an English composition was far from ideal. Therefore Goods for Good decided to donate pens and notebooks to all of the Standard 8 students. This donation served as an excellent example of what Goods for Good wants to achieve. We want to work with strong organizations improving the entire community such as St. Mathias and St. Mary’s, where a donation of goods can be put to targeted use where there is a specific need and desired outcome.