My friend, Kindness Girl, aka Patience Salgado, is collecting pens and pencils from Richmonders for children in the Philippines who don’t have them.   Patience is an amazing woman with lots of worthy causes, but this one in particular strikes a chord with me. As a writer and an artist, there have been many days where a simple pen has saved me from boredom or from losing an important thought.

Isn’t that great? Pens! These are special pens, they are pens of hope. I can only imagine what goodness can from writing, drawing, creating and learning, can you? It is such a lovely and simple idea, with so much hope wrapped up in it.

Do you think we can collect 5,000 pens and pencils by Mother’s Day (Sunday, May 10th)? I think we can do it!

Here how:

You can find all the info here and see pics from the last project here. Nortehanon needs pencils this go around, so gather your kids, your grandmother, your dog and head out to buy pencils (the pretty glitter kind or regular old standard #2, colored too). This is a great opportunity for a neighborhood project, a recipient for lemonade stand profits, or other clever ideas your kids can come up with to gather funds to purchase the pencils. It’s perfect for students of all ages, for artists, for lovers of travel, for kindness workers, anyone who feels the call of friendship.

In every donation, please write a short note or send a picture, introduce yourself…make a friend!

You can mail them right to Nortehanon at this address:

PENS OF HOPE
P.O. Box 16
Post Office, Bgy. Dalakit,
Catarman Northern Samar
6400

or if you are in Richmond, you can write me at patience@kindnessgirl.com and I’ll give you an address of where to send them so we can send a big shipment together to Pens of Hope. I’m headed out to get a post office box today, it’s so thrilling!