The School Kit Challenge

Whether you assemble 1 or 100 kits through our School Kit Challenge, your generosity will help kids around the world learn and grow.

The challenge

Join MCC's School Kit Challenge and help us pack 25,000 school kits in August 2025.

School kit packing is a great way to bring your family or community together while nurturing a love of learning in tomorrow’s leaders and peacemakers. So get back-to-school shopping and then get packing with your family, friends, or Sunday school and VBS students.

Sign up below to receive a fun guide that will help you teach kids how school supplies help students around the world receive an education. 

Keep us posted on social media and you could win a pizza party for your group! See below for details.

Together, we can share God’s love with some of our youngest global neighbors. Will you sketch out pathways to success with pencils, create noteworthy memories through notebooks and remove barriers to education with erasers? 

How you can get involved:

Contents of a school kit on laid out on a table

Each kit contains the following school supplies, lovingly packed into a colorful cloth bag that a child can use as a backpack for years to come:

  • 4 spiral or perforated-page notebooks, about 21.5 cm x 27.5 cm (8.5 in x 11 in); approx. 140 pages (CAN) or 70 sheets (US) each, totaling 500-600 pages (CAN) or 250-350 sheets (US)
  • 8 new unsharpened pencils
  • 1 ruler (flat, good quality; must indicate 30 cm (inch markings optional))
  • 12 colored pencils (in packaging)
  • 1 large eraser
  • 4 new black or blue ballpoint pens
  • 1 small all-metal pencil sharpener (one or two holes)

Download or print a list of kit contents here

Please donate NEW items only. MCC staff can offer suggestions on where to find school supplies.

Then, bring your school supplies to an MCC kit drop-off location near you.

Everything will be packed into a colorful drawstring bag that a student can use as a backpack for years to come. Interested in sewing kit bags? 

Learn how to make a kit bag 

Don’t have the time to purchase supplies and drop off a school kit? Or perhaps you live far away from one of our drop-off centers, but still want to invest in children’s education around the world.

We invite you to sponsor the cost of items for a school kit (or 20!) instead. A donation of $9 covers the cost of the items for one kit, including a colorful double drawstring bag that a child can use as a backpack for years to come.

Use MCC’s School Kit Challenge activity guide to show Sunday School and VBS kids how school supplies help children around the world get an education. Sign up below for this free resource packed with educational (and fun!) activities.

Get the activity guide

Plus, learn how school kits are changing the lives of students like Mary and John in South Sudan.

Post a photo of your school kit packing group on social media, and you'll be entered to win a pizza party courtesy of MCC. Two prizes will be given — one for the most creative photo of school kits and one for the most school kits shown in a single photo. For starters, can you get 200 school kits in one photo?

To enter, post your photo to social media, tag @mccpeace in your post and use the hashtag #MCCSchoolKitChallenge. All photos posted to Facebook or Instagram by August 31, 2025, will be entered to win a pizza party.

School Kit Challenge activity guide

Download the School Kit Challenge activity guide today!