Shoebox project starts again
For the 16th year our club is leading a multi-state effort to help children in Nicaragua by providing boxes of gifts which we will be delivering next December.
“Shoebox ramrod” Steve Thorpe began handing out those boxes June 5. Each one is marked with the age and sex of an intended recipient. The list of recommended contents can be found on our club’s web site, http://waterloorotary.org/SitePage/nicaragua-shoebox-project. Scroll to the bottom of the page to find excel files, one for boys and one for girls.
Boxes will be due back around September 1; and plan now to travel with us next December to see for yourself the difference our efforts have made.
Students must maintain good grades and attend school at least 80 percent of the year to qualify for the box. Education is considered essential for those kids to escape the grip of extreme poverty, defined as living on less that one Euro a day, or about one third of the cost of a coffee at some places in Iowa.