School supplies delivered

One of the priorities of the trip was to deliver a bag of donated
school supplies to the recipient community. We did that on Monday Feb
25. It is always a pleasure to deliver such needed items. The few
markers, crayond, scissors, rulers, etc that we could carry dwn were
excitedly recieved by the children. you can see them holding their
new items up in the air in the picture here. I´m in the middle of the
other photo. There were also the children throughout the week that
were upset that they didn´t get their stuff because they weren´t there
that week. I told them that was why they needed to go to school
everyday. We also had left a quantity of things with the teacher just
for that inevitability.

Delivering materials box by box is rewarding but doesn´t really
address the overall problem of the lack of supplies in these schools.
I´m hoping to begin sending things in larger quantities in 2008. In
fact, every link in the chain of distribution of donated new items is
in place except for the actual donation of the items. We have
committments to free shipping of 5000 lbs per month, free passage
through customs, trucking, warehousing, and distribution in Nicaragua.
All we need is the stuff to send. If anyone has any ideas on how to
get ahold of new school supplies and get them to Miami please notify
me.

you can get ahold of me at tabulation@gmail.com