We collect pencils, notebooks, books, and backpacks and get them straight to the Austin kids whose families can't always swing it.
We're Atharv and Jayden - two incoming freshmen from Austin. We kept noticing the same thing around school: kids without the basics. A pencil. A notebook. A backpack. Small stuff that's easy to overlook until it's the reason a kid falls behind.
So we started The Pencil Project. Right now it's just the two of us - collecting supplies, running small drives, and dropping them off at schools and libraries near us. We're still figuring a lot out, but we mean it.
- Atharv & Jayden
When a kid has their own supplies, school stops being about what they're missing and starts being about what they can do.
Their own notebook and pencils means walking in ready to learn, not stuck borrowing or sitting out.
Plenty of Austin teachers buy supplies out of pocket. Every box we deliver is money back in theirs.
A fresh backpack and a few books can change how a kid feels walking in on day one.
Here's where we're at. We're just getting started, and every drive moves the bar.
Just kicking things off - follow along as the bar fills up.
Everything we collect goes to schools and libraries around town - the closer to home, the better.
Supplies for homework-help and after-school programs so kids can keep learning past the school day.
These campuses serve Austin's highest-need students. We get supplies straight into classrooms.
Community centers serving families stretched thin - we make sure their kids are stocked up too.
Give a few bucks, or pass along supplies you've got lying around. Either one goes a long way.
Donations let us buy exactly what's short - pencils, notebooks, books, backpacks - and cover getting them where they're going.
Got extras at home? New or gently used, books very much included. Email us to sort out drop-off or pickup in Austin.