Crayons Matter Delivers Backpacks to the Newcomers Schools

Anna Wall and I were thrilled to deliver 25 more Crayons Matter backpacks filled with crayons, notebooks, colored pencils, pencils, and unique pieces of art created by children in the United States during New Student Orientation at the Newcomers School in Greensboro, NC on September 30th.

We are delighted and honored to partner with the Newcomers School to share backpacks filled with essential school supplies and art work. A special thank you to Angel Katona, Candice Bailey, Emilie Young, Nora Murray, and the entire team at Newcomers/GCS for making this initiative a reality!

Crayons Matter Local Milestone: Delivery of first backpacks to children at the Newcomers School in Greensboro, NC

Awesome local milestone! Crayons Matter has delivered our first backpacks to children in the United States! 

Anna Wall and I were thrilled to deliver 25 Crayons Matter backpacks filled with crayons, notebooks, colored pencils, pencils, and unique pieces of art created by children in the United States to the Newcomers School in Greensboro, NC on August 29th. We are scheduled to deliver 25 more backpacks to students during new student orientation at the end of this month.

We are delighted and honored to partner with the Newcomers School to share backpacks filled with essential school supplies and art work with new students. It is a privilege to have established this meaningful partnership, and we are even exploring the opportunity to have students at Newcomers create art work for students at our sponsor schools in Ghana - wonderful chance for children to connect globally through creative thought! We are also engaging in an Art Station Project that will bring additional art supplies to students at Newcomers - more to come! A special thank you to Angel Katona, Candice Bailey, Emilie Young, Nora Murray, and the entire team at Newcomers/GCS for making this partnership a reality!

Thank YOU for your inspiring support of the Crayons Matter mission that allows us to make a difference in the lives of children globally and locally! Your time, energy, and generous resources are making a difference.... 

Crayons Matter Milestone - Partnering with Walmart

Wow! Crayons Matter has celebrated yet another milestone by partnering with the incredible leadership team at the Walmart - Greensboro Store #3658 to purchase essential school supplies for the children at our sponsor schools in Ghana and in Greensboro. It is critically important that every dollar donated to Crayons Matters is spent wisely so that we can supply the greatest number of backpacks filled with crayons, colored pencils, yellow #2 pencils, and notebooks to students in need.

A BIG thank you to the Walmart - Greensboro leadership team for their kind and generous support of the Crayons Matter mission: Tommy Hudson, Cecil Sharpe, Anthony Soto, John, Brian, and Taylor. The time and energy that you and your team have put forth to help our group purchase essential school supplies will enable us to share and deliver resources more efficiently to children in need.

Crayons Matter is delighted that we can purchase supplies locally from Walmart and make a difference in grassroots communities both locally and globally.

Coldplay calls it "Magic", and I tend to call it divine intervention. Each time another meaningful door opens for Crayons Matter, it is huge blessing that we can all engage in a service journey to educate children in Greensboro, Ghana, and other local and global communities by inspiring their imaginations through crayons and basic school supplies.

Thank YOU for continuing to support and encourage the next steps of Crayons Matter. Your contributions do matter! Please have your children CRAFT, CREATE, COLLECT, and SHARE art work for our backpacks - each drawing brings such joy, care, and love to children around the world! 

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WFMY News 2 Story: A HUGE Thank You goes out to Zack Matheny for Tweeting this story and to George Heckard at WMFY News 2 for sharing this journey through pictures and video! 

Thanks to Jason and Nate for taking documenting the day with amazing photos!!

http://www.wfmynews2.com/story/news/local/2014/08/02/backpacks-to-ghana/13536225/

All of the backpacks are bound for Ghana...I will share updates soon! 

Backpack Assembly Day in Greensboro, NC

What an amazing couple of days for the Crayons Matter mission!  Over 35 volunteers packed 1200 backpacks that have now started their journey to Ghana (at 4pm today!!).  The team also assembled 250 backpacks that will be shared with the children at the Newcomers School in Greensboro, NC this fall.  Wow!!

Thank YOU all for your incredible support, kind generosity, energy, and passion to make a difference for children all over the world.  The donations that YOU have contributed, the art work that YOU have created, the crayons and supplies that YOU donated, and the time that YOU have given all make this service experience possible.

WFMY News will be running a story tonight on Crayons Matter on 11pm news - thanks, Zac! - another humbling and heartwarming milestone for this grassroots initiative.