Wish List of Items To Help Out Indigenous Communities

Safety issues:

• Reflectors for bicycles
• Flashing light for back of bikes.
• Safety vest
• Flash lights
• Reflector tap

Garden projects:

• Gardening tools Gardening tools
• Clippers
• Gloves
• Hand shovels
• Seeds (things that work: cucumber, corn, beans, peppers, cilantro, cabbage, melons, squashes)

Painting projects:

• Brushes
• Rollers
• Brushes for cleaning the surface before hand

Education projects:

• School Uniforms!
• Notebooks
• Kids picture books in English or Spanish.
• Pencils/Pens
• Art supplies
• Computers or computer components (mouse, keyboard, Etc)
• Color pencils
• Chalk
• Educational toys
• Sports equipment (soccer)
• Rulers - Metric
• All kinds of schools supplies for the teachers as well and the students

Art Projects:

• Carving tools (lots of gourd carving here)
• Paints
• Artistic paint brushes
• Etc.

Books:

• Any kind of resource books
• On ecology
• On wildlife
• Conservation
• Climate change
• Education
• Sustainable development
• Tropical gardening
• Story books - Spanish or English
• Construction
• Latin American history

Clothing:

• Rubber boots
• Shoes
• Kids clothes
• Clean used clothes
• Umbrellas

Other:

• Cameras: Disposable or re-usable
• Bicycles
• Toys
• Rechargeable batteries and the apparatus to recharge them.
• A photocopy machine - could be at a school or could be at ATEC and ATEC could then donate copies to the schools and non-profits.
• MONEY!
  • For emergency situations (food, water, transportation)
  • For buying trees to reforest
  • To buy construction materials for schools, NGO's
  • To pay a construction manager to manage a volunteer project
  • To buy school books and uniforms for low income families
  • To buy anything else you can dream up, ooh, we have needs.