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The Humanitarian drive at Beaver Lake Middle School has come to an end for the year 2010. The shipping containers with education supplies, bicycles and stuffed animals will arrive in South Africa in July. A travel team of seven members from the Generation Joy Board, former students, and members of the BLMS staff will be present in South Africa to deliver all supplies to the children and schools in the area. Some of the 480 boxes hold over 7000 books that will benefit the students in South Africa. Stay tuned for updates from the travel team....
Dear Friends of Generation Joy,
Thanks to your generous support our 2010 travel team is distributing the school supplies that we collected and shipped to children in South Africa who are eager to learn! We have a Travel Blog this year with e-mails and photos from the travel team, and we'd love for you to take a look! and click on "subscribe". You will receive e-mails with the latest updates from South Africa. Be sure to click on "view full entry" to see all of the text and photos. Enjoy!
Generation Joy Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, also referred to as GenJoy.
The idea of "kids helping kids" began seven years ago on a personal trip to Ghana. This idea continued within the Beaver Lake Middle School and community. In recent years we have had six different educators from BLMS fly over to aid in the distribution of the items. Each ensuing year, photos of the actual items being placed in the hands of children are shared with our students and the process is repeated.
Generation Joy Foundation was founded to focus on the mission of "kids helping kids". Non profit status allows GenJoy to raise funds outside the school to aid in the shipping of supplies, pay for fuel in the delivery, and purchase needed items that were not collected during the drive. Future goals include offering scholarships to rural South African students, expanding the number of students traveling to South Africa in the future, increasing the area we serve, and perhaps some day bringing South African students and teachers here to visit our community.