Pencils and Paper Reduce School Dropout Rate
PF Costa Rica's donations of school supplies can mean the difference between education and eventual unemployment for many prisoners' children.
In Costa Rica, a country with the fourth highest inflation rate in Latin America, children frequently must drop out of school because their parents can not afford the cost of school materials. Families with one parent in prison find paying for school supplies especially challenging. To help ensure these at-risk children are able to stay in school and receive a valuable education, PF Costa Rica organised an annual “Back to School” programme for prisoners’ children. Using donations from the community, PF purchased hundreds of notebooks, pens, pencils, and other essential supplies to provide complete school material packets to 100 needy children whose parents are participants of the ministry’s faith-based APAC programme. “My daughters are very grateful to you…all of us were crying with happiness,” said one mother of five when her daughters received their supplies.
