Lonita Benson is a Civitas alum who is currently serving in the Peace Corps on the Pacific island chain known as Tonga. You might think that Lonita is serving in paradise, but she is teaching students in one of the most impoverished countries in the world. We offered to send some supplies to her, and among the things that her students could use are basic writing utensils — pencils and pens. Her classroom has no world map; only a broken globe.
If you are coming to one or both of our events this Saturday, Model UN in the morning and Betsy Sinclair in the afternoon, and you could bring some basic school supplies, that would be great. We’ll make sure they get to Lonita and her students in a timely fashion. We will also be collecting supplies at our Reinventing Voting Conference. If you have questions, please email us at [email protected].
Click here to see our project on Magnify!
Some of the items we are looking for:
- Pens
- Pencils
- Index cards
- Washable markers
- Crayons
- Colored pencils
- Maps
