Wish Lists for Ethiopian Kids

If you or your school or club would like to send items for either school or to distribute to local youth clubs or street children, they would greatly appreciate anything sent. Our school is considered more upscale and still the walls are bare, the 2 restrooms (for 450 kids) have no soap, toilet paper, nor towels.
The street kids wear the most threadbare clothes that are almost see through, or they wear shoes worn down to multiple holes on the bottom. The non-food items don’t need to be new - gently used is fine.

Candy, all kinds. You can buy small Snickers here, but the cost is 80% of a shoe shine boy’s whole day salary. Even when I buy crackers for my kids that cost $.15 each, I have to hide them in my bag or I get approached by beggar kids saying “Biscuit! Biscuit!”
Maps
Clocks
Posters for schools or child care centers (with ABCs, inspirational quotes, the kinds you get as magazine inserts)
Old kids magazines
Used books of all kinds for school, child care libraries (for ages 3-19)
Balls (deflated if more practical to send)
Ball pump (we have punctured 3 soccer balls in 3 weeks)
Pens, pencils, markers, tape
Games ( jump ropes, jacks, small balls, action figures)
Old DVDs
Raincoats, jackets
Children’s vitamins

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