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SCHOOL
IN A BOX |
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Lion Clubs International in cooperation with UNICEF
has been supporting the School-in-a-Box program since 1996. The purpose is to provide school
supplies to refugee camps and in geographic areas devastated by natural
disasters so that displaced children can continue to gain access to
educational services and regain some normalization in their young lives. The goal is to ensure the continuation
of a child’s education in the first 72 hours of an emergency. Over the past decade thousands of
Box’s have been provided to teachers in areas affected by civil unrest,
war, earthquakes, hurricanes, and tsunamis. In 2005 over 112,500 boxes were
distributes enabling 9,000,000 children to continue or start their
educational process. This
includes 1,755 sent to areas within the Each UNICEF School-in-a-Box includes teacher supplies and materials
for up to 40 students.
each. The contents of the Box are
not culturally specific and require a local teacher or an educated
individual. Components can be
adapted so that they can be utilized anywhere in the world. Exercise books for example are printed
without margins, so that children who write left to right or right to left
can utilize them. The cost of a single “BOX” is
$206.00. Our goal is one box per
year. Please
consider helping the children by sending your own donation to LCIF, For more information on
this program visit the LCI or UNICEF websites. |
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