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Companions is an organization that collects stuffed animals and donates them to children living in poverty all over the world. In leadership at Powell, we are working with this organization to collect 1,000 stuffed animals from kids at Powell.

The stuffed animals must meet these qualifications:
 * Must be new or gently used
 * No rips, tears, sharp edges, or parts
 * Smaller is better, should fit in suitcase
 * Clothing and accessories (hats, baskets, shoes, tape recordings, etc.) must be removed
 * Character animals such as Barny, Snoopy, Winny the Pooh, Cookie Monster, Spongebob, etc.
 * Large animals are not suited for overseas travel

Kids in foreign countries have no source of comfort except from their parents. However, devastating natural disasters may have killed their parents, leaving them without anything. They have nothing to do all day except retrieve resources, which some may be too young to do anything. Even children without toys because of where they are don’t deserve to have nothing. Toys are a large part of childhood, without them, what could have happened to development? What do kids have to do all day? This is why we are collecting stuffed animals for kids in the world. Across the globe, many kids are affected by poverty and disease. With nothing to do except get sicker and sicker.
 * We are doing this because children who can’t have what we have shouldn’t have it be that way, no way. We know they deserve to have these things. Please donate a stuffed animal, and make a little child happy.
 * Haiti
 * 78% of Haitians get only $2 US dollars daily and more than half get less than 1 US dollar.
 * 8% of Haitian kids don’t see there first birthday
 * Haitian life expectancy is 61 years
 * 50% of Haitian school students are overaged
 * 30% of kids in primary school won’t go until third grade and 60% will abandon school before sixth grade
 * The total population is 9.4 million in Haiti
 * 62% adult literacy rate
 * 3% of children under 5 who are suspected of pneumonia receive antibiotics

Feel free to let us know if you have any questions in the comment box on the home page. Thank you!