Student-led community action plan created and presented during an Ambassador Leadership Summit in 2018 at UCLA.

1. Supplies for
Successful Lives :
Operation
Notebook
Give a pen give a future

2. Our big goal is to supply the children of Central West Chicago with
the supplies they need to get an education, because they cannot
afford their own school supplies.
What is our big goal?

3. 80%Of Chicago kids are economically disadvantaged, and suffer through poverty

4. What is poverty?
“Poverty is general scarcity or the state of one who lacks a certain
amount of material possessions or money.”

5. Real stories
A girl named Maria is supposed to read at an eleventh grade level,
however she only reads at a second grade level. Maria is one of
many kids in Chicago who experience this due to lack of education
funding in Chicago public schools. Lack of government funding
leaves teachers unable to care for their students and supply them.

6. Facts about central west Chicago
education
- Kids who attend public elementary, middle, and high schools in
Central West Chicago cannot afford to buy their own school
supplies
- 49 elementary schools and 1 high school shut down in 2013 , due
to a 1 billion dollar deficit.

7. What are teachers doing to help?
- Teachers try to teach with outdated and broken technology
- Teachers end up buying their own supplies for their students
- One teacher in Chicago said that “ Students who need the
most don’t get the most”.

8. How you can help?
Every month you can come out to our monthly drives in different
areas of Chicago and donate school supplies and money.

9. Why schools are shutting down
- One of the main reasons that schools are shutting down is because most
students decide to attend charter schools or other alternative schools
- Therefore there are no students to fill the school and the funds for the
school go away and cannot keep the program running

10. Why education is important
- Education is important because it sets the path for your future
- Education is necessary at the childhood stage because it
develops a child mentally and physically

11. What organizations would support us?
1. Safe Haven
2. Heartland Foundation
3. Back 2 School Illinois
4. Cradles to Crayons
5. Volunteers of America
6. Salvation Army

13. Bibliography
- Chicago tribune
- Nbc
- Wiki Poverty
- Nytimes
- Weform