KTKI is sending a message of peace and friendship around the world with our student created picture books. Most recently, Mercy and Grace Orphanage in India received our friendship boxes with picture books and school supplies, and sent us this wonderful photo showing their appreciation.

Warm wishes to all of you this holiday season!

Thank you for your continued support.
Kids to Kids International

Wanting to help children in an orphanage in India, local students helped KTKI pack 13 friendship boxes and brought them to the local post office. When they found out the shipping cost for the packages would be $1300, we didn’t know how we could afford it. Our High School volunteers pledged to raise the money to pay the shipping bill by running fundraisers at their schools, and with joy returned to the post office to send the boxes to India. (See picture above.)

Children at the Mercy and Grace orphanage were elated to receive their student created picture book and school supplies and sent us a thank you message! (See picture above.)

Everyone should have received the October Newsletter which highlights the letter from the two posts below.  Every month we hope to bring you new photos and updates about the KTKI program around the world!

Robyn, Web Admin

We want to help you with what you have said is “the most pressing issue facing America”…EDUCATION. We are students from Yorktown High School in Yorktown, NY, and our goal is to give as many kids around the world an opportunity to learn more.

Through a non-profit organization, Kids to Kids International, we are sending boxes of student-created picture books and educational supplies to children around the world. Many schools throughout the United States are doing the same – we even have student-created picture books from Dever Elementary School in your hometown of Chicago. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if a program like this could be in every school in the United States?

We hope you will check our website www.ktki.org. You can put this program in every school in America and give every student a global voice of peace and friendship. And guess what?! It would not cost a thing…. and imagine what it could do.

So we’ll all be friends,
Jesse Yuan and Laura Victor, Yorktown High School Students

Thank you for encouraging us and reminding us that no matter what we do with our lives, we will need an education to do it. Each and every student has to fulfill his own educational responsibilities.

This is what many of the students attending Yorktown High School, in Yorktown, New York are doing to support you. Through a non-profit organization, Kids to Kids International, we are sending boxes of student-created picture books and educational supplies to children around the world.

We are awakening everyone in our school to help us reach out to the rest of the world in peace and friendship and this will be our contribution for now.

Through education, and learning about the rest of the world, we are seeing what the global problems are and doing something about  it. In your recent address regarding education, you asked us some questions and we hope we’ve answered most of them. As far as what a president who comes here in the future says about what we did for our country, we hope He/She will approve. Mostly, we are doing this for our current President.

So we’ll all be friends,

Laura Victor, Jesse Yuan, and Joseph Sloan
Yorktown High School students working with Kids to Kids International

It has always been our hope, our dream, and our vision, to be in every school in America ever since Kids to Kids International (KTKI) was incorporated in 1991.

As President Obama has told us, “The world has changed and we must change with it. And we will transform our schools and colleges and universities to meet the demands of a new age.”

This new age, this global world, demands peace and our friendship. And we can answer this demand. “Yes we can!” We can continue sending student-created picture books and educational supplies to children around the world.

Kids to Kids International is a grand idea! All these past years, you and your students have responded to our program with love and concern. Most important our very own children here in the United States have been awakened to the presence and needs of children everywhere.

However, getting our friendship boxes there has always been a challenge and now current world conditions are forcing us to change our shipping procedure.

This year, we are asking you to ship your KTKI Friendship Box(es) directly to the address of your chosen country. This will eliminate your shipping cost to our office. We will supply you with a current contact and address to ensure that your box will be received.

This will involve your students even more, as they take on the task of helping raise the money to ship their friendship boxes to children who may never have held a book before.

You do not have to make hundreds of picture books. You might want to begin with just one or two carefully, and lovingly created by your students. This and a few packages of paper, pencils and crayons might meet the needs of a whole village.

Through your membership we will guide you with an updated, expanded KTKI Manual, maps, your country address connection, and continue to have an office presence to answer your questions. In addition, if and when our office receives a response from a country, we will post the photos and/or drawings on this website and send them to you as well!

Those students waiting and wanting to reach out to children around the world with friendship and peace… will do just that!!!

So we’ll all be friends,

Pat Kibbe
Kids to Kids International Founder

Kids to Kids International in Hirat Province, Western Afghanistan – February 2009

Hirat is a province in Western Afghanistan that borders Iran. During the years of war in Afghanistan, many thousands of families fled to Iran to seek refuge and have been gradually returning to their homes since 2002. Most of the children returning to Afghanistan with their families have never seen their country before and must start a new life with a new home, new school and new friends. Coming back to their country – a process known as reintegration – can often be very difficult for returnee children.