A new social enterprise, KITE (Kids Inspiring Tomorrow's Education), will make its formal launch in Bedford, NY, at the Bedford Historical Hall on the evening of October 24th, 2013. The undertaking terms itself a "school supply company that gives", following the tried and true "one-for-one model." For each pencil pack purchased, KITE provides a pencil pack to a child in need. KITE is partnering with schools and organizations that are committed to eliminating the barriers of education both internationally and domestically. Thirteen million kids in the United States alone are without the most basic of school supplies with tens of millions more children around the globe facing this same reality.
KITE's first two partner schools include the Kipp Ujima Village Academy (KUVA) in Baltimore, MD and the Oloomongi School (in partnership with the Anne K. Taylor Fund) in Masaai Mara, Kenya. KUVA is a Title I School where a high percentage of students are living below the poverty line. Their student body is 99% African American and 86% receive free or reduced meals. The Oloomongi School serves a student body that has little access to basic school supplies due to widespread and extreme poverty. KITE's Co-Founders, Elizabeth Long Lang and Emily Ginnel Blair will be visiting the Kipp Ujima Village Academy in Baltimore, Maryland on October 25th (the day after the event) where they will be making their first domestic donation of pencil packs.
KITE will be debuting its line of First Edition pencil packs, proudly made in the USA. First edition pencil packs include 12 pencils and will retail at $10.00. KITE pencils will be available for purchase at the event on October 24th from 5-8pm and online at www.kiteproducts.com.
KITE aims to empower consumers to help those in need by turning basic, necessary instruments of learning into weapons of change. "A pencil is one of the most enduring, pervasive education technologies ever invented," says KITE co-founder Elizabeth Long Lang, "yet is ...
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