Thank you to all of the students that have come together to support our FAB project in Belize!

I just transfered a carload of teacher support materials, school supplies, a vcr, 3 computer keyboards, a computer monitor, and boxes of videos and books from our friends Dick and Ellie Reddy and their students at SUNY Fredonia!!

Thank YOU!

InterVol's excited about the future of FAB and looks forward to impacting lives through our partnership with SUNY Fredonia!

Items Still Needed to Fill Boxes for Belize---- Interested in getting involved? Email me at jaimebarclay@hotmail.com to find out HOW!!!

Wish List:

We still need sporting equipment, balls, volleyball nets etc.

Copy paper (all sizes)

Computer perforated 9½" x 11" print paper with or without carbon

Blank CDs - rewritable and others

Measuring rulers

Permanent markers (all colors and sizes)

Whiteboard markers

Highliters

Calculators

Computer printers (at least 2)

HP printer cartridges (#45, #23 and #78)

Tapes (masking, packaging, transparent etc.)

One or two cameras (film or digital)

Television for training center

LCD multimedia projector for training center

Laptop computer for training in rural areas


I sent Hilberto an email asking the approximate number they needed of each of these items. I will resend this list when I get an answer from him. I wanted to be sure I shared this with all of you just in case you had any of these items you wanted to donate or wanted to do a drive for some of these things at school/your office/with your friends.

Thanks again for all of your help!

We are excited to say that we are still in need of some items to add to our shipment in Belize. Some of the items we need are as follows:

Powerstrips with at least 6 3-prong outlet spots
printer and copier paper
computer mice
mousepads
Laminating machine and supplies
blank CD-R's
general office supplies (consumables--labels, paperclips, staplers, ect.)

If you have any of these items for donation please email me jaimebarclay@hotmail.com or call today (585) 249-1990.

Jaime

After sending an update of our school supply inventory Hilberto (Belize Scout's) sent us this reply:

Great job Guys, keep the spirit of service alive. We are grateful for every bit of assistance provided to us through InterVol.

Regards

Hilberto B. Riverol
Scouts of Belize

Thanks AGAIN for everyone who donated supplies and to everyone who helped us put this project together!!!! (molly & margo, Brighton High School Staff & Admin, Bill for picking it up, doug for humoring us in stealing valuable space in the warehouse, and the whole Team InterVol for their continual support)

After sorting the supplies yesterday we have a running total of what we have inventoried so far--- here it is!

35--packages of 3x5 notecards
51--1-subject spiral notebooks
106--misc. 1-5-subject notebooks
150--double pocket folders
91--packages of loose leaf paper
36--packages of pens
51--loose single pens
150--Brighton High School Pens!! Thanks!!
44--packages of pencils
39--loose unused pencils
13--pencil sharpeners
47--composition notebooks
15--large erasures
14--bottles of white glue
22--boxes of crayola crayons
14--blunted student scissors
24--glue sticks
23--packages of colored pencils
3--sets of artist pastels
1--large box of misc. teacher supplies (3-hole punch, construction paper, staples, chalk, etc.)

We are so excited to see what comes in from Fredonia on the 31st of January!!!

Thank you again Molly and Margo for all of your hard work!!

Margo Blevins hard at work sorting all the supplies collected at Brighton High School for shipment to Belize

Molly Sauvain Checking supplies in and inventorying them for shipment to Belize. We had a great time at the warehouse on Monday!

WE will be having a special FAB sorting party at the InterVol warehouse on Monday January 16th from 10am-2pm to sort supplies for shipment to Belize!

Friends Across Borders (FAB) was created to give our student volunteers an opportunity to design and carry out service projects to help support the social and education needs of school age children in the communities we support through humanitarian medical aid.

If you would like to join us on Monday please drop me an email jaimebarclay@hotmail.com or call me at 249-1990 to rsvp!

I look forward to seeing all of you at the InterVol warehouse on Monday, January 16th from 10am-2pm!

We had a great FAB meeting yesterday! We discussed our project with the Scouts and when we would be meeting at the warehouse to sort and inventory the items for shipment.

We seem to have set a date for FAB at the warehouse on Monday 1/16 from 10am-2pm. This will give us an opportunity to organize and inventory all the items that we have available for shipment and be sure that all equipment is in working order.

If you are interested in joining us on Monday to sort books, school supplies, test computers, and inventory please drop me and email at jaimebarclay@hotmail.com or call me at (585) 249-1990 today.

What is Africa Alive??

January of 2000 kicks off the campaign to literally help keep Africa Alive! in the new millennium. The MISSION of the Africa Alive! campaign is to educate and give youth the skills they need in the fight against HIV/AIDS through the medium of popular entertainment. The VISION is a new generation of Africans who are HIV/AIDS-free.

Are you interested in supporting this project and want to team with an InterVol volunteer to help support through the sorting and shipment of medical equipment and supplies?? If so, drop us an email today and we will connect you with our volunteer working on this project!

Computers for our friends in Belize!  

InterVol volunteer Lynda Howland has been truly invested in the Africa Alive program and is anxiously awaiting the shipment of these supplies to her friends across the pond! 

Some of our volunteers have a specific project in mind for InterVol donations. Thank you Lynda Howland for your continual support and entheusiasm! 

Which one of InterVol's volunteers checks it with a smiley face!!! Sending our cheer all over the world!! 

FAB's Margo Blevins Writes:

The school supplies drive for Belize was more successful than we had expected.

Molly and I went on the Morning Show (a morning news program that are school has) and announced the two-week drive.

In Interact Club meetings, members made posters to put around the school about the Belize drive.

After school on the 16th (the last day of out drive), we went around with a cart and picked up boxes. Once we had all the boxes that we could - some rooms had been locked - we took all the supplies out and sorted them, just like in Intervol.

It was fun.

Then we put all the supplies in to boxes. While trying to move a white board out of our way, we accidentally knocked it over.

As if that wasn't bad enough, the leg of the white board got stuck in a cart with an overhead projector on it. The cart was partially lifted off the floor, and the projector was in danger of falling to the floor. Molly and I came to the rescue, and, with stunning teamwork, got the whiteboard leg out from inside the cart and brought it back upright. That was a little too exciting for my taste.

On Monday, we collected the rest of the boxes and sorted the supplies in the Interact meeting on Tuesday morning.

All in all, we ended up with seven full to the brim boxes of school supplies for Belize.

Thanks Brighton staff and students for all of your help, the interact members and officers (Jack, Vijay, Nick, Anne-France) for your help collecting the boxes, and to Bill for picking all the boxes up!

Thanks again Margo & Molly for your committment to FAB!!!

Take some time to have some FUN!! 

Sorting Party TONIGHT at the InterVol Warehouse from 6-8pm!!!

If you are interested in bringing a group please call Doug at 967-0260 now!

Pizza and Soda are always provide!!!

Take an evening to help change the world-------- one box at a time!

Having the opportunity to see all of the supplies first hand is one of the FAVORITE things for the students who volunteer in the warehouse--- imagining where they will go and whose life they will save. 

See there IS pizza!! Come to a sorting party on any 1st or 3rd Tuesday of the month from 6-8pm!!! 

Molly Sauvain & Margo Blevins hard at work in the InterVol warehouse! Without these two our program would not be the same! Thanks girls for your continual committment to this program!