Donate Your Books and Educational Resources.
The need
Thousands of students in sub-Saharan Africa don’t have access to school supplies and textbooks. Providing one textbook to every student in a classroom increases literacy scores 5-20 percent (Michaelowa and Wechtler (2006). Without the necessary school supplies, bright young minds lack the quality of education that they need to thrive academically. Too many young people with high potential turn to destructive rather than constructive paths for themselves and their community.
Often both teachers and children are discouraged to continue because they do not see the positive outcome. A few have managed to excel but many still need help to continue pursuing education and that is why TOUCEO wants to provide educational resources through its community hub projects where libraries will be built and stocked with books for both teachers and the students
Our Solution
When struggling schools work hard with what little is available to them, we step in to help. By offering basic tools of education to schools, we improve access to quality education for the underprivileged future leaders.
You can help – donate school supplies today for the underprivileged children.
TOUCEO aims to act as an intermediary provider to source school supplies through generous donations and distributing these materials directly to our community hubs in the areas with the greatest need.
Often both teachers and children are discouraged to continue because they do not see the positive outcome. A few have managed to excel but many still need help to continue pursuing education and that is why TOUCEO wants to provide educational resources through its community hub projects where computer laboratory ,libraries stocked with books and activities space will be built and for both teachers and the students
Scholastic Needs Required
When struggling schools work hard with what little is available to them, we step in to help. By offering basic tools of education to schools, we improve access to quality education for the underprivileged future leaders.
You can help – donate school supplies today for the underprivileged children.
- Solar lights for use by children when studying.
- Backpacks and other book bags
- Notebooks
- Umbrellas
- Rulers (English or metric measurements)
- Pencils, erasers, and pencil sharpeners
- Chalk
- Donations for Uniforms and shoes. $50 provides two uniforms and a pair of shoes for a child.
- Calculators
- Filler paper
- Graph paper
- Pens
- Pocket dictionaries
- Reusable water bottles
- Reams or boxes of paper
- Miscellaneous arts and craft items
- Science equipment
- Drawstring bags
- Netbooks / Laptops / Kindles / iPads / eReaders
- Colored pencils, crayons, and markers
- Pencil boxes/cases
Donate Conference Bags / Event Bags / Organization or Company Bags or Backpacks – Do you have conference or event bags that you would like to donate to a great cause? Or do you have “branded” bags (bags with your organization’s brand name) that you would like to donate? This could be because of a printing error or a change in the company branding/logo. We warmly accept branded bags that will be distributed free to kids in Africa. These bags will be used by kids as they take books and school supplies to school. We also accept other branded items such as pens, pencils, notebooks, etc.
How You Can Help
Donate
- New supplies: If you have unused supplies at home, school, or work, please feel free to send these to us directly.
- Send us supplies from our Amazon wish list: Please feel free to take a look and select your donations. These supplies will be sent directly to us.
- Used supplies: We welcome gently used supplies of all types. Recycling previously owned school supplies and office items is a great way to help others while being kind to our environment.
- Branded Items: To the extent, you have used or unused branded items from the list above, we wholeheartedly accept these donations as well.
Donate towards shipping costs is the best way to help send school supplies to the areas where we operate.
Monetary support: The core of this effort remains to provide school supplies, but in order to ship these materials to our schools/community hubs in Uganda, we would incur significant shipping costs. As a result, we warmly welcome your financial donation that will cover the cost of shipping your donated item(s) to Uganda. This helps us speedily place the item(s) into the hands of children. Donations towards shipping can be sent by check, money order,
Donating towards shipping supplies is the best way that you can help. Sending all the books and supplies we would receive costs thousands of pounds in shipping costs. Please make a donation today to help pay for shipping.
Other Ways You Can Raise money Through An Online Fundraiser
Facebook –
Use your Facebook account to set up a quick and easy fundraiser for any occasion
Step 1: Go to https://www.facebook.com/fund/touceo/ to set up a Develop Africa fundraiser for your birthday, anniversary, school project, etc.
Step 2: Share and invite people to support you and TOUCEO.
Crowdfunding –
Set up your own crowdfunding page that you use to fundraise for a cause.
Step 1: Go to crowdfunding Click on “create my own fundraising page”. Then edit your individual page. You can set the goal, change the photo, and change the text
Step 2: Share and invite your friends, family, and contacts to support TOUCEO.
GlobalGiving –
Create your own fundraiser under an important project that supports Develop Africa
Step 1: Go to https://www.globalgiving.org/fundraisers/start/ and type in “TOUCEO” where it asks what project you support. Follow instructions on the page.
Step 2: Share and invite your friends, family, and contacts to support TOUCEO
GoFundMe –
Set up your own fundraising page that you use can use to raise funds for a cause (such as a school supply drive) or occasion (such as an Eagle Scout Project)
Step 1: Go to https://charity.gofundme.com/touceo and click on start a campaign
Step 2: Share and invite your friends, family and contacts to support TOUCEO