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20 - The Oakville Beaver, Wednesday August 15, 2007 www.oakvillebeaver.com FREE FREE FREE Adult ENGLISH CLASSES with computers (LINC) Offering Literacy & Levels 1 to 7 Full-Time, Part-Time, Evenings, Weekends Accepting Ages 18 & Older Childcare offered at some locations "Home Study" program available CALL & REGISTER TODAY!!! School supplies donated to classrooms in need Staff and volunteers at Ten Thousand Villages, downtown Oakville will be collecting school kits for classrooms in needs over the next few months It's time again for back-to-school shopping ­ an ideal time to share the excitement of learning with children who can only dream of new school supplies. While most Canadian students start the school year with new supplies, it is a luxury that youth in developing countries go without. Staff and volunteers at Ten Thousand Villages believe students in these countries deserve better than that. In the months to come, they will be collecting school kits for classrooms in need. "Readily available school supplies let students and teachers focus on what's really important: learning," says Frieda Kehler, manager of Ten Thousand Villages in Oakville. "We hope that people learn more about this project and decide to take part. In just a couple of hours, they can make a real difference to a classroom of young learners." School kits contain spiral notebooks, unsharpened pencils, coloured pencils, an eraser and a ruler. Contents are placed in colourful drawstring bags sewn by volunteers. This year, thousands of school kits will be sent to students in Iraq and Afghanistan whose families are unable to afford basic school supplies due to years of sanctions and war. Additional kits will be sent to other places where conflict and famine persist, such as Jordan, Ukraine, Burundi, Liberia, Haiti and El Salvador. "Besides adding some normalcy to disrupted lives of students and teachers around the world, MCC school kits provide valuable supplies for youth who might otherwise have only one notebook for all their year's lessons," says Frieda Kehler. When families in Oakville do their back-to-school shopping this month, they can help by picking up some extra items. For students here in Canada, the simple act of collecting supplies for school kits is particularly meaningful. "Some youth have been moved to collect supplies for school kits instead of gifts at their birthday parties," says Frieda. "They can't imagine being so poor that they have no paper." Interested individuals and groups are asked to visit Ten Thousand Villages on 226 Lakeshore Rd. E. to pick up drawstring bags and return them with the requested supplies. Kits will then be forwarded to Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), Ten Thousand Villages' parent organization, for distribution. 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