The Study Hut will be doing fundraising to help Proyecto Remedios Educativos (translated in English as Project Educative Remedies) this holiday season, and they need your help in assisting young children in the Nicaraguan municipality of Salinas by providing them with much needed school supplies and monetary donations. Proyecto Remedios Educativos (PRE) is an Alaskan non-profit organization that is designed to assist students, impoverished schools, and communities that are in need in Central America.
The municipality of Salinas is a rural area that is subject to the hardships of poverty, and it is located in the second most impoverished country in the western hemisphere. The students, schools, and citizens of Salinas lack the vital educational resources to better themselves, and both The Study Hut and PRE will assist them with pursuing their education by providing them with writing instruments, paper, and other supplies needed to have functional schools.
PRE states that they need donations for the following items:
* Pencils (mechanical or standard)
* Pencil Sharpeners
* Pencil Lead
* Pens
* Colored Pencils
* Erasers
* Notebooks
* Coloring Books
* School Bags (backpacks, canvas totes, or reusable shopping bags)
* Rulers
* Geometry Tools
* Human Body Diagrams
* World Maps
* Globes
* Sports Balls
* Jump Rope
* Chalk
* Typewriters
* Typewriter Ribbons
* Solar Powered Calculators
* Staplers
* Staples
* Surge Protecting Power Strips
According to PRE, monetary donations can go a long way because they do not pay any staff, and only work with volunteers. Also, every amount donated to PRE will only be used in their mission, and because the costs of textbooks and supplies are cheaper in Nicaragua, your monetary donation will go further. Here is an approximation of what your donation value is worth:
Donation Values:
$5 Will provide a class textbook for a Nicaraguan classroom.
$10 Will help purchase paper for 4 students for 1 year.
$20 Will provide for all of the School of Igueral’s chalk needs.
$50 Will buy a manual typewriter for one of PRE’s three schools that is without electricity.
$100 Will provide new chain link fencing for Las Salinas’ two school yards, or 15 new textbooks for one of the classrooms!
$200 Will provide a new set of textbooks for an entire classroom in one of the schools.
$500 Will provide textbooks for almost 3 classrooms in Salinas, Nicaragua.
$750 Will provide textbooks for 3 classrooms in Salinas, Nicaragua, in addition to fixing a school yard’s swing sets!
$1000 Will provide 5% of PRE’s total monetary fundraising goals. It will also provide approximately 150 textbooks and stock 5 classrooms!
$2000 Will provide 10% of PRE’s total monetary fundraising goals! It will also purchase 300 new textbooks and stock at least 10 classrooms!
For more specific information about this non-profit organization, or how your donation will assist the organization, please visit their website at www.prehelps.org. However, please be aware that if you donate locally through The Study Hut, you can be rest assured that your donation will arrive there safely and in due time. You may drop off your donations at either the Manhattan Beach or Redondo Beach locations.
Thank you for your help!
