By Roschelle Lowe
For the past fifteen years, Green Mountain United Methodist Church in Colorado has been collecting end-of-year school supplies for BOOKS for the BARRIOS – a volunteer-led non-profit organization operated by volunteer American schoolchildren. Based in Concord, California, the humanitarian grassroots community action program ships thousands of tons of educational books and supplies to underdeveloped public schools in remote villages in the Philippines.
This year the volunteers of Green Mountain UMC executed a drive that enabled all of the schoolchildren of the Denver area to donate 80 boxes of crayons weighing 30 pounds each – over a ton altogether! Long-time organizers Brenda Bronson and Tom Walker promoted the passion for sharing that touched the hearts of each donor. Green reuse action of educational resources helps the environment in both countries and promotes peace and goodwill. Green Mountain UMC has shown that public education opportunity sharing is an essential element of our American humanitarian foreign policy in the 21st Century.
Peace Activists Brenda Bronson and Thomas Walker proudly display hundreds of bags of crayons Green Mountain UMC collected from Denver Area schoolchildren.
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