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The Holy Cross campus community has joined the “The
BluePack Project” effort, an initiative to provide 200,000
specially made backpacks filled with basic school and hygiene
supplies to Afghan children. The project, created by the
Academy for Educational Development (AED), is supported by
the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. The
price of a BluePack is $10. A portion of that cost will go
to teacher training and other initiatives to help rebuild
Afghanistan’s capacity to educate its children. Currently
in Afghanistan, few schools are intact, and education supplies
are virtually nonexistent. According to UNICEF, only about
one-third of all school-age children in Afghanistan attend
school. The BluePacks contain basic educational materials,
including pencils, notebooks, ink, traditional bamboo pens,
and wooden “takhti” writing boards—as well
as soap, brushes, combs, balls and jump ropes. The College’s
goal is to raise $10,000 by April 1, 2003.
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