A major project Tim and I are honored about doing in Maua is a deworming clinic at an area school. Our families donated enough money over Christmas of 2013 so that we could treat more than 500 children with deworming pills.

Tim and I will visit a school to deliver the deworming pills and deliver school supplies. My coworkers donated more than 140 pounds in school supplies!

Tim and I have packed and repacked the supplies. They will go to the school children where we deliver the deworming meds. We also have more than twenty pounds of dum dum suckers to deliver to the children after they receive their deworming pills. We also collected many little bottles of bubbles to share with the school kids.

Why is it significant? Many children share a pencil with one other student. They use the pencils until they are tiny little nubs. The children use one piece of paper to keep all their notes and lessons on throughout the course of a week. I look back at when I was a school child. I loved getting new notebooks, pencil boxes, and huge boxes of crayons each school year. Something I took for granted and so lightly- and now Tim and I will carry pounds of pencils, crayons, markers, paper, bubbles, and more half way across the world to children who don’t get school supply lists at the beginning of each year.

Tim and I bargained throughout the packing process. I of course found the dum dums as the most important supply- Tim thought the pens and pencils were the most important. We realized that the children deserve both the fun and the practical. Where we get dum dums after eating pancakes at Elmer’s restaurant, many of these children don’t know to remove the wrapper from the sucker before eating. Tim and I will learn well how they experience both the fun and the practical.

It’s been an overwhelming process in that people have been incredibly generous with their time, money, and gifts. We are traveling with the love and support of so many. THANK YOU.