Gateway kids give kids a start in school

By Bill ZlatosTRIBUNE-REVIEW Thursday, December 6, 2007
Children from 10 local schools have collected nearly 1,400 sets of school supplies so that refugees in Iraq can go to school.
The 4,000 pounds of supplies are being loaded at Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit store in Squirrel Hill that sells goods made by artists from 30 developing countries.
The store has coordinated the collection and loading of supplies to be sent abroad for four years.
"We're a little store with a big heart," said Sue Schneider, special projects coordinator for Ten Thousand Villages.
Gathering the supplies were students from Carnegie Mellon University Children's School, The Children's Institute, The Ellis School, Montessori Children's Community, St. Edmund's Academy and Baldwin, Gateway, Oakland Catholic, Schenley and Woodland Hills high schools.
The kits will be distributed by the Mennonite Central Committee, a relief and peace agency of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. Last year, the committee distributed nearly 120,000 kits in 13 countries.
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