One of my (our) biggest dilemma is trying to identify children that not only want our supplies, but those that genuinely need and appreciate it.
When I was in Jamaica, I was told that children there do not hoard. If a child has a pencil and his classmate does not - he (or she) will cut it in half so that both children will have a pencil.
How to you make that leap from a third world country to that of a school in an inner-city or in an area of abject poverty? We in the US are fortunate enough to not know of children that go to school without shoes, clothes or the basic needs (or at least I do not). How do we choose the truly needy vs the wanting?
How do we find the same kind of need in the US? I would love some ideas.
