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.)

Robyn, Web Admin

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

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

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