October, 2008

  • Meredith, New Hampshire ~ Over 75 students from around New Hampshire help load school supplies into shipping container bound for Africa. Click here for photos.
  • Newport, Arkansas ECIO worked all summer to collect school uniforms for the children in Newport, Arkansas. The uniforms were cleaned, mended, and distributed to the students. In addition, we collected money to buy additional uniforms for Newport High School and Castleberry Elementary School.
  • Newport, Arkansas Students at Newport High School are currently in the process of compiling the Every Child Is Ours cookbook. The book should be ready in time for the holiday season. It will contain pictures and recipes from all of our project sites.
  • New Hampshire Schools around New Hampshire are still collecting textbooks, workbooks, library books, school supplies, and sporting equipment for our next shipment to Kanana, South Africa. This shipment will be packed on October 3rd in Meredith, NH and shipped to South Africa on October 25th. Some schools currently participating are in Groveton, Exeter, White Mountain, and Newfound.
  • Meredith, New Hampshire On October 3rd at noon, ECIO will be holding a ceremony to load our next container to South Africa. The owners of Hart’s Turkey Farm have been generous to allow ECIO to use their property to load and send off our container. In attendance will be the Commissioner of Education, the National President of the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP), and the Supervisor of the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association (invited guest).
  • Birdsong, Arkansas On October 25th, Birdsong will celebrate their new and growing library and community garden with their first annual bread baking contest.

 

November, 2007

  • Kindness goes full circle. During the 2005 - 2006 school year, New Hampshire students collected school supplies and clothes for students effected by the hurricanes. (See below for more details) This fall when the students in Arkansas heard about the Paper mills closing in Groveton New Hampshire, they used their own money to buy locally grown bags of rice. Edna Earl and JD Copper drove the truckload of rice to Groveton, NH.

February, 2007

  • Teachers from around the country travel to Acuña, Mexico to bring school supplies. This includes teachers from The Whitefield School in Whitefield, New Hampshire and Keene Middle School in Keene, New Hampshire.

August, 2006

  • Once again the New Hampshire CTSO students collected school supplies for ECIO. This year the Connarys drove the 3200 miles to deliver 3800 pounds of school supplies to Arkansas schools. It was rewarding to see the looks on the childrens' faces.

April, 2006

  • the ECIO board and guests met with the Kanana Retired Teachers Club (KRTC) in Orkney of South Africa’s North West province.  ECIO and the KRTC visited Reahola, Bathabile, Are-Bokeng and Ntataise primary schools, and Mmonkeng Secondary School.  Initiated with several conference calls, ECIO coordinated sister school relationships between schools in Kanana and in the United States.  In addition to learning more about South Africa by becoming pen-pals with the students abroad, American students and teachers are committed to sending reading and text books, sports equipment, school supplies and other needed materials to Kanana.

November, 2005

  • Teams of teachers from Whitefield, New Hampshire, Berlin, New Hampshire, Hot Springs, Arkansas, and Newport, Arkansas were partnered with an individual school and immersed in that school’s culture.  They brought tremendous amounts of school supplies for the Mexican students and teachers.  Each school received a computer and an internet connection from the Every Child Is Ours Foundation.

March, 2005

  • Jan Paschal visited Denmark on March 29 to meet with representatives from the Hans Christian Andersen Foundation.  This was a great opportunity to meet with another organization dedicated to helping raising world literacy!  We are very excited about the trip.

August, 2005

  • New Hampshire CTSO students collected school supplies during the 2004-2005 school year, these supplies were delivered to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Elaine Connary (State Advisor ~ FCCLA) and her husband Ervin Connary (State Advisor ~ TSA) drove over 3000 miles to deliver the 4600 pounds of supplies collected. The students were very excited to recieve the much needed items.

November, 2004

  • CTSO students from New Hampshire traveled to Acuña, Mexico to bring backpacks filled with schools supplies. They were given an opportunity to see the poverty of the area. They were most touch by their visit to a local orphanage. While there, they purchased Christmas presents for the children at the orphanage.