Bryce Council – February 3, 2009 – Getting Tools to City Schools – First Visit

Today I had my first visit, or rather our company’s first visit to us. We started out learning about Getting Tools to City Schools. We found out that it was a company that gives school supplies to schools in which 90% or more of the student body receives Title 1 Funding.. We also learned that they don’t just give to any school. They only give supplies to schools in which 90% of the children or more cannot afford to pay for hot lunch at school. From knowing that we can pretty much infer that those kids also can’t afford school supplies. LREI is very close with this company as well because the chairman and founder of this company was a former LREI parent. While Dennis Kitchen, the chairman/ former LREI parent came, we also did inventory. Basically we just counted up everything that we had in the box that was out front in the lobby. We had 2,088 pencils which was enough for about 451 binders. We also had many other things and we put them in a chart and we emailed it to Dennis. From came up with the plan that we might visit one of the schools that he donated to, and that we might also keep a goal and try to achieve that goal and present in Middle School meeting. Overall, this visit was fun and I hope that we can do more next time.