Push for Pencils
Be A Part of Push for Pencils
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About Push for Pencils
More than 80,000 St. Louis area kids need your help to have a successful start to the school year.
Join KidSmart in the 5th annual Push for Pencils community-wide back to school supply drive. Individuals, businesses, community organizations and office buildings throughout the area will host supply drives from August 1 – 31.
Last year more than 300,000 items along with nearly $45,000 was collected to help kids in need succeed in school. KidSmart hopes this year’s drive will bring in enough supplies to help even more local kids in need succeed in school
Why Join the Push for Pencils in St. Louis?
Six years ago, Armond was a fifth grade student at Cote Brilliante Elementary School. Armond wrote a letter to KidSmart explaining that he had never had his own notebook. His teacher would often distribute paper to the students by tearing out sheets from a pad. Armond wrote that although sharing was nice, he would really like a notebook of his own because all of his paper was gone.
Sadly, there are 80,000 area children just like Armond who face the reality of trying to learn without basic supplies like paper and pencils. KidSmart—Tools for Learning is a local nonprofit organization that operates a free educational supply store to help kids like Armond succeed in school. Since opening in 2002, KidSmart has distributed nearly $8 million in school supplies to more than 40,000 local kids in need.
There are still 40,000 children in St. Louis who need our help. Studies show that students with proper supplies have a better chance of succeeding in school. Every child deserves to start the school year ready to learn.
Push for Pencils will help replenish the KidSmart Free Store for the start of the school year and provide thousands of children with the tools they need for success in the classroom. With the help of the St. Louis community, a notebook for each child in need can be just the beginning.