The Pencil and Crayon Collection is Over....

checkbelow to read how many pounds we collected!

About two months ago, Waddell paraprofessional Ligia Aristizabal told me that through her parish priest, she found out about an impoverished school in Santiago, Chile named Pablo Neruda Elementary School.  This school serves one of the most impoverished communities in Santiago.  The school is named after a Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda (1904-1973), who is recognized as one of the greatest poets of the 20th Century.  He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.   

Students at Pablo Neruda School are just finishing their summer vacation and will be returning to school very soon.  This is a school with very limited resources.  Things such as paper, pencils and crayons, things we take for granted here in Manchester, are in very short supply.  Pencils and crayons are considered prized possessions at Pablo Neruda School.

Here are pictures of the school
and the students and teachers!

The school is named after the Nobel laureate poet Pablo Neruda who is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. His works have been translated into dozens of languages. Many people of Chile loved him for his politics. Power of the pencil!!!!

Want to see how many pencils and crayons we collected for the Pablo Neruda Elementary School in Chile? And check out the story about it.

School is just getting close to starting in Chile.
Our school year is getting close to ending.

Do you know WHY they are starting when we are ending?

Mrs. Aristizabal got some help with the heavy boxes from Mr. Chasse.

126 pounds!!!!!!

The teachers and students at Pablo Neruda
will write us when the boxes get there.