Pencils for Jamaica ... each one reach one!

I don't know yet where I will be assigned for my two year service after training  - and won't know until I am sworn in - May - that said - PENCILS are sorely lacking in every school I have been at, and educators here in Jamaica as well as Peace Corps Volunteers would love to have a pencil for every child.

Pencil sharpeners and/or erasers are also not available - if the students have pencils, they chew them down, to sharpen them.

 I will be working in the Green/Environment sector... SO ... if anyone has pencils that you could donate- please send them to:

 Alice Anderson, Peace Corps Volunteer,
 %Carla Ellis Country Director, 
8 Worthington Ave.,
 Kingston 5, Jamaica, West Indies.

When I have my permanent assignment - I will update this address. Ideally, at the end of my two year tour, students will have pencils. We will never have a surplus ... so more is better. I will also be able to distribute your pencils to others in my group, or the past groups that are here in Jamaica. Ideally, we can cover the entire island with Pencils from everywhere USA and beyond.