Donations Needed for July/ August 2023 Trip
Books and Other Donations Needed for the Library & Primary School
Our summer 2023 trip is almost here! Our Wish List items need to fit into checked baggage suitcases. We still need classroom sets of books for Nursery (pre-school) students for the school library which opened in July 2019 plus items needed at the school every year and which do not weigh very much. There are over 700 students at this northern Uganda school. Would your school, book club, sports club, school service club or church group want to hold a supply drive or a book drive for us?
Donations Especially Needed:
- Books especially for Pre-K – tinker toys; do-a-dot markers; quatro blocks and block vehicles and specialized sets such as farm yard or firehouse for quatro blocks or mega blocks. Plus jump ropes, playground balls and ball pumps are always popular!
- #2 pencils, blue and black name brand ink pens and plastic pencil boxes which will hold 100 or so pencils are always needed. Pre-sharpened pencils are especially appreciated!
- Items for sanitary pad kits for 5th and 6th grade girls – girls hipster underwear in sizes, 10, 12, 14 and a few size 16, plus lightweight easy dry wash cloths, plastic toiletry bags, gallon ziploc freezer style bags.
- Raincoat poncho/jackets for 6th grade boarding students – Here’a a link to our favorite: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075J94VLL/ref=twister_B06XBXSLXK?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 – adult size is the preferred size and different patterns and colors are great!
- Lightweight blankets such as thin fleece for both the clinic (new moms) and 6th grade boarding students.
- Stickers that appeal to K to 3rd graders – especially in small sizes. They like to stick them on their hands & foreheads!
- Teaching supplies/tools/equipment/books – from a retiring preschool or K to 2nd grade teacher
Other Items Needed:
- 29″ and 31″ lighter weight suitcases (used okay) – to transport stuff to Uganda!
- Laptop carrying bags – thinner and lightweight are best (otherwise costs too much to ship)
- Money donations to help cover airline’s extra luggage costs of $200 per suitcase
Use King Soopers and City Market (in Colorado) and Name Outreach Uganda as Your Charity:
- If you live in Colorado, King Soopers and City Markets (Kroger stores here) will make a quarterly donation to us based on your shopping dollar total that quarter. Please create an online account at kingsoopers.com or citymarket.com, link your phone number to this account and choose Outreach Uganda as your charity to support.
- Donate airline miles to Outreach Uganda. Delta, KLM and Southwest miles especially needed to further our program work.
Questions or need more info on our Wish List? Give us a call at 303/683-8450 or email us at office@outreachuganda.org. Our next trip to Uganda is scheduled for July/August 2023 and then March 2024. You can take advantage of back to school sales in August-September!