A Sea of Pencils!

On the last day of term we had a casual dress day at Drysdale Primary School. The purpose was to raise an overall awareness of child poverty in the world and provide an opportunity for the students to contribute in a meaningful way. The money will be used to purchase some library books and sports equipment for Joshua Primary School at Bushikori, Uganda. I also asked each family if they would like to donate a packet of coloured pencils.

After showing the students a short slideshow of the children in Uganda they all became very enthusiastic to help. You can imagine the excitement in my class when there became many knocks on the door and packets of pencils and donations began flooding in. A lot of students gave more than their gold coin donation and many brang more than one packet of pencils! Students began coming up to me to tell me about their sponsor child or how they have donated money to support various projects to help the poor overseas. It was truly amazing to get such support and encouragement. Eventually I managed to fit all the pencils in the boot of my car. After counting all the money we had raised I was able to buy some beautiful picture books about Africa and some lovely Steve Parish books about Australia.

Truly blessed to be a blessing….