Serving Gifted and High Achieving Students in Kansas

Many Kansas not-for-profit organizations have service projects.  Being selfless is one of the most important messages that we can give to our children, gifted or otherwise.  To that end, the KGTC Board of Directors has searched for a service project that our students, teachers, administrators and others could get behind.  

The kernel of the idea was to help our troops by sending books with soldiers for them to read in their down time while in battle areas.  Then we ran across Help us Learn...Give us Hope!

The idea of our kids helping Iraqi and Afghan children by providing supplies was very attractive.  As we learned more, we found that used books and supplies could also be sent to the kids.  Locker cleanout at the end of the school year should be a gold mine!

Our cost to administer this program is nearly non-existent.  You see, materials can be collected as a student project.  Once collected, they can be taken to ANY Kansas National Guard Armory as long as they are marked for the Help us Learn...Give us Hope!  Project.  As soldiers are shipped out to service in these battle areas, the National Guard troops will take the supplies with them.  All we ask is that a brief “Supplies Inventory” be completed on the web when the supplies are delivered to the Armory on behalf of KGTC.  In that way we can keep track of collections across the state.

This is now “Back to School” time, and students across the state will be going with their parents to buy new school supplies.  Imagine the result if  each of our gifted kids picked up an extra spiral notebook and a package of pencils.  How much better would it be to add a box of crayons?  And just think, if every student also got a backpack!!!

School supplies are also just the beginning.  How much good could we do if every teacher would take all of those outdated texts that are no longer going to be used by their district and boxed them up for these Iraqi and Afghani students?  What if librarians across the state would box up the books that they are cleaning out of their libraries and would box them up for Help us Learn...Give us Hope!  too.

Check out their web site at Help us Learn...Give us Hope!   You will see that they…

 

 

 

 

 

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