2026: Backpacks for Liberia
This year’s Hand-On Mission project for the Appalachian District is “Backpacks for Liberia.”
The school kits will equip some of the 16,000 students who attend United Methodist Schools in Liberia and Guinea to learn and grow. These school supplies help keep the sometimes prohibitive cost of school supplies from keeping young persons from pursuing their education. Prices and Shipping costs have increased but we still want to make an impact so this year our goal is 144 backpacks.
To help reach our goal the outreach team is once again ordering supplies in bulk. This means we can purchase all the supplies including the backpack and shipping for under $20. If you were to buy the supples individually you could expect to pay at least $40. We invite each person to consider sponsoring one backpack with a $20 gift. Maybe you need to sponsor just half a backpack for $10, or maybe multiple backpacks. The choice is yours.
It will take $2,700 to cover the cost of 144 backpacks. That is slightly more than last year, and any money raised over that $2700 will be used to purchase local supplies for kits for our partner ministries in Zimbabwe. Tariffs and increased custom fees has made shipping goods to Zimbabwe unfeasible but connection to local vendors means we can provide full kits, bought locally in Zimbabwe for just $5 a kit. That means every little gift will help our brothers and sisters overseas.
You can donate online here, just look for the "OTHER" section where you can specify Backpacks by typing it in the blank field.
Please turn in donations by Sunday, April 26.
The school kits will equip some of the 16,000 students who attend United Methodist Schools in Liberia and Guinea to learn and grow. These school supplies help keep the sometimes prohibitive cost of school supplies from keeping young persons from pursuing their education. Prices and Shipping costs have increased but we still want to make an impact so this year our goal is 144 backpacks.
To help reach our goal the outreach team is once again ordering supplies in bulk. This means we can purchase all the supplies including the backpack and shipping for under $20. If you were to buy the supples individually you could expect to pay at least $40. We invite each person to consider sponsoring one backpack with a $20 gift. Maybe you need to sponsor just half a backpack for $10, or maybe multiple backpacks. The choice is yours.
It will take $2,700 to cover the cost of 144 backpacks. That is slightly more than last year, and any money raised over that $2700 will be used to purchase local supplies for kits for our partner ministries in Zimbabwe. Tariffs and increased custom fees has made shipping goods to Zimbabwe unfeasible but connection to local vendors means we can provide full kits, bought locally in Zimbabwe for just $5 a kit. That means every little gift will help our brothers and sisters overseas.
You can donate online here, just look for the "OTHER" section where you can specify Backpacks by typing it in the blank field.
Please turn in donations by Sunday, April 26.
Liberia?
Lear about our partnership with the UMC in Liberia |
The Republic of Liberia began as a colony of America, set up for the repatriation of people of color to return to Africa in hopes of finding greater freedom than they could have in the United States. Liberia declared its independence from the US in 1847.
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