Our Club’s November service project focused on supporting the Kids In Need Foundation. On December 13, 13 club members, their spouses and friends gathered at the Kids In Need new facilities in Little Canada. We were joined by 11 students from the Mounds View High School Volunteer Club. Together we joined forces to help the Foundation fulfill its mission of providing school supplies to children in need and to under-resourced teachers. Over a two hour span our entourage packed neatly 400 boxes of school supplies destined for teachers coping in needy and impoverished classrooms. Each box contained a multitude of school supplies ranging from rolls of scotch tape, glue sticks, note books to pencils and pens.
The Kids in Need Foundation strives to empower under-resource strapped teachers and students by providing them with the school supplies they need to succeed in the classroom. This, in turn, helps create an equitable learning environment in more impoverished communities.
The Foundation is the only national nonprofit focusing on the nation’s most under-resourced schools: those where 70 percent or more of the enrolled students are eligible for free or reduced-cost meals.
