Chatsworth Avenue Elementary School

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Picture Books from the Palmyra-Macedon Elementary and Intermediate School in Macedon, NY have been added to the KTKI Online Bookshelf!

Palmyra-Macedon Elementary School – Macedon, NY
Palmyra-Macedon Intermediate School – Macedon, NY

Lost boy Gabriel Deng met Pat while he was living in a refugee camp in Kenya in 1988.  In 2000, Deng was given the opportunity to come to America and now is a professor at Le Moyne College in Syracuse, New York.  He recently visited Yorktown High School to speak to the Amnesty International Club about his life.  Pat was able to reunite with Deng and show him the KTKI office!  Read the complete story from the Yorktown Examiner in our News section.

A letter from Kathleen Barrett, a Chinese language teacher from Connecticut, and her reconnection with KTKI.

Adams School Penny Harvest

In May 2010 Adams School in Seattle, Washington held a Penny Harvest that raised $1,000. The Student Leaders then decided upon five charities in which to donate a portion of the money. This included a $150 donation to Kids to Kids International’s Special Haiti Relief Project!

Yorktown High School for Haiti

We have just returned from a very successful trip to Haiti! The YHS T-shirts and the KTKI postcards were a huge success. What a beautiful country, strong people and spirit. The country seems so very fragile, and it is not obvious who is in charge.

The photo of the little boy with the shirt was taken in an 8 room schoolhouse in Marigot. It is a beachside town, small, near the Renaissance town of Jacmel. The school teaches 475 elementary school kids. A teacher’s salary is $600 for the year. The kids get one hot meal cooked by the mothers (they rotate) which is often their only meal of the day. Each kid is also able to bring some food to his family at the end of the school day. School is in session from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm because it is too hot to try and hold classes. I visited this school after the kids had gone home, so I left the postcards with a colleague who will be sending us pictures of the distribution of the postcards.

The photos of the two girls in the YHS shirts were taken in the small beachside town of L’Acul which is near Leogane. These kids did not attend school and lived in one of the tent cities. This area was about 10 miles from the epicenter of the earthquake and the damage to these villages/schools is severe.

Thank you so, so much for all your work– to YHS, KTKI, French Hill, etc. You brought many smiles to kids in Haiti and it was very humbling and special to witness it!

Brady

Kids to Kids is so grateful to have received such a wonderful gift for our Haiti Project! We know it will be difficult to get our materials into Haiti, but once we do we will be able to provide the children with the supplies with which they need to learn. Thank you to the Sandy Searles Miller Academy for International Studies!

We feel that if we as an organization (KTKI and its members) can show the President how important KTKI is, and the difference it makes to American children as well as children everywhere, maybe he can help us get KTKI in the curriculum of every American school!

Thank you for your continued support! Together we are truly making a difference for those children in need!

Another newspaper article about KTKI! This time in the Yorktown Examiner out May 25-May 31st. Read the article here!