Supplies We Are Bringing With Us

Supply List for 2009 Belize Mission Trip:

For Volunteers:

Medical scrubs – we wear these in the villages so that we don’t look like tourists, and because the villages are very conservative in their dress.

Used Suitcases –we use these to pack the supplies and then leave them in the villages where they are put to very good use.

For the Catholic Parish in Punta Gorda, Belize:

Used First Communion dresses – the villages use these for the girls’ first communions and they are used over and over.

Fronts of used Christmas cards with religious scenes

Used Easter candles

For the personal health and hygiene bags and school supply bags that we give to each school child (about 300 kids, so we collect about 300 of each):

Bar soap

Toothbrushes

Standard-size tubes of toothpaste

Hairbrushes/combs

Pencils

Erasers

Pencil sharpeners

24 count boxes of crayons

Sugarless gum

Gently-used tennis balls

Items requested by Belizean principals and teachers for use in their schools – usually one or two room schoolhouses with one teacher teaching all grade levels, and they have VERY limited supplies:

Wall clocks

Protractors

Pens

Compasses

Scissors

12” rulers

Thumb tacks

Rectangular pink erasers

Colored chalk for blackboards

Chalkboard erasers

Antibacterial ointment

Band aids

Dictionaries (paperbacks, the smaller the better) – slightly used is okay

Wide-lined loose leaf paper

Graph paper

Multi-purpose (printer) paper

Permanent markers (black or colored)

Decks of playing cards (used for math games)

Plastic tape

Current world maps

Educational posters: Science, Math, Language Arts

Flashcards: Math, Words with pictures for little ones

Paperback books for ages 5-13

Books for early readers with words repeated frequently

Sports/Recess Equipment for Schools:

Frisbees

Sidewalk chalk

Chess Sets

Checker sets