Methodist Girls School will pack
2200 Kids Kits for poor children in Laos
About 100 girls from Methodist Girls School will be packing
2200 sets of Kids Kits tomorrow, July 4, 2007, for 2200 children in Laos

School students packing 2200 Kids Kits together

 1           It’s hard to believe, but a need as simple as a pencil, a piece of paper, or a set of colour pencils stands between a child and his or her education. Many children in Singapore have no difficulty bringing basic school supplies, not so for children living in the developing countries.  Neither can their families afford these items, so many children are not able to go to school because they lack the most basic educational tools.

2          For children living in impoverished countries, an education is their only hope of escaping the poverty trap. World Vision Singapore has created a programme known as “Kids Kits” aimed at giving these children a chance to go to school, realise their potential and hopefully, a chance of a future.  This programme aligns with World Vision’s support of Goal 2 of the MDGs (Millennium Development Goals) i.e. working to achieve universal primary education for all children by 2015.

3.          Through World Vision Singapore’s Kids Kits programme, we also engage the local community in Singapore to share in bringing hope and cheer to the needy children where they have the opportunity to contribute to the school kits and in packing the items.  The kits can be purchased or donated and packed by a school, company or any social interest groups where they will then be shipped to the country in need.  Our first project this year will benefit 2,200 vulnerable children in Laos, a country where a significant proportion of children, especially girls and ethnic groups in remote areas, are not guaranteed an equal opportunity to a basic education.   

4          Since the programme began in April 2007, World Vision Singapore has achieved its targeted procurement of 2,000 such school kits.  Three companies - Advantest Pte Ltd, Kian Min Travel and World Asia Publishing (M) Sdn Bhd in partnership with students/pupils from Greentree Montessori, Anglo Chinese Junior College, CHIJ St. Nicholas Girls’ Primary, Methodist Girl’s School have donated a total of 2,550 Kids Kits.

About World Vision Singapore Kids Kits Programme
World Vision Singapore’s Kids Kits initiative is part of World Vision’s Gifts-In-Kind (GIK) ministry. Our GIK programme is a conduit for Singaporeans to help poor children and families in tangible ways by engaging companies, schools and churches to supply useful gifts that meet the urgent and specific needs of a community in a developing country.


A Kids Kit consists of:

• One school bag
• One package (8 count) wooden pencils without designs
• One package (8 count) ballpoint pens—blue or black ink
• Two 6 x 9-inch notebooks
• One pencil sharpener
• One large ink eraser
• One ruler with metric measurements
• One package (12 count) regular-size crayons
• One package (12 count) regular-size colour pencils

Gifts-In-Kind Contact Persons

In 2000, at the United Nations Millennium Summit, 189 world leaders adopted the Millennium Declaration and agreed to collective commitments to overcome poverty through a set of eight mutually reinforcing interrelated time-bound goals (MDGs) with related targets.  The MDGs are at the forefront of the global development agenda and represent the international community’s commitment to eradicate poverty by 2015.  In September 2005, the UN World Summit resoundingly endorsed the MDGs. It was agreed that by 2006, all developing countries will prepare bold national strategies to achieve the MDGs, and that developed countries would increase their assistance to developing countries.