On May 1, 2010, Pat Kibbe was presented with the 2010 Verna E. Mulholland Friend of Education Award, given by Delta Kappa Gamma Society International, an organization of key women educators. Read more
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Pat Received the Verna E. Mulholland Friend of Education Award!
Dear Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education,
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
Dear President Obama,
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
