Kits for Jaremy

Most of you know about what Jaremy is doing out in Mississippi. If you don't you should visit his blog, Jaremy's Journey, and get caught up. The school Jaremy teaches at is located in the lowest performing school district in the lowest performing state in the nation. Most of his students come from the poorest of circumstances and hope for much better. They can not afford to buy their own and when Jaremy supplies them they don't seem to make it back to class. I am currently organizing a few different groups that are putting together supply kits for each one of Jaremy's students (130 total) and was hoping we could get the Higbee family, Jaremy's family, involved. I have talked to Jaremy and identified the basic supplies needed to help him teach these students better. We are going to put the supplies together into kits that will stay in the class room for use there. Our hope is that this project will not only supply the kids with things they need to learn, but also show them that there are people out there that care about their success.

We have already put together a few kits and found that each one costs about $10.00. My hope is that every member of the Higbee family will sponser 1 student by donating enough money to purchase the supplies for 1 kit. I know that money is tight for most of us, but think of what you could give up this month in order to help with this project: 1 lunch at Cafe Rio, one night out at the movies, I'm sure we can all think of one thing we can skip this month. I know, I'm starting to sound like one of those infomercials 'for the cost of just one cup of coffee a day you can feed an entire village'. Anyway...If every member of the J. Marvin Higbee were to do this we could provide about 70 kits for Jaremy's students... that's over half!! Isn't that awesome?

So, if you feel like you can help out in anyway please send the money to me at my house by next Monday. That isn't a lot of time so get on it! We will go buy the supplies and then everyone is welcome to come help put the kits together on Saturday the 28th at 12:00 noon at Jolie's. It's gonna be a blast... I hope you will all help out as you can. We have been working on this with my side of the family. We gave up the family Christmas gift exchange and are instead giving that money to this project. We have collected $230.00 and are purchasing the supplies this afternoon and putting them together next week. And these people only know Jaremy through me... if they can do it so can we. Let's do it!!

(Please forward this email to all of the members of your family... it only goes to mom and dad and the eight kids... let's get the word out there. thanks)