A community based project to provide knapsacks with school supplies to under served children in St. Lucia. The St. Lucia Knapsack Project operates out of Toronto, Canada and seeks the support of individuals to reach this goal.
Children age 0-14 represent 39% of all poor people in St. Lucia. Anse La Raye and Soufriere have poverty rates in excess of 40%. With poverty comes the vulnerability of children to drugs and gangs and other negative influences. Not being able to afford an education leaves these children with very limited options later in life, where they're faced with tough choices.
We provide underserved children with the basic tools they need to get an education - a knapsack filled with school supplies. The children who receive knapsacks are identified by their school's principal annually.
The Toronto arm of the project will launch in May this year, with a deadline of August 25th. The knapsacks will be shipped to St. Lucia and distributed at the beginning of the school year.
We're a grassroots movement whose mission is made possible through the generosity of 200+ individual sponsors. To date 3,202 children have been reached through the project. Join us as we work to break the cycle of poverty through education!
