For information on how you can donate school and clinic supplies for our schools in Africa, click here!

Last week, Deme one of our volunteers, visited our project sites in Equatorial Guinea! As part of our ongoing effort to provide only sustainable and necessary aid, we work with on-the-ground volunteers to complete at least one visit per year to each of our project sites. During these trips, we assess the impacts of our aid and work with the local community to improve our giving.

Will you be traveling to Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, or Madagascar? Serve as a trained Ladybug Project Site Assessment volunteer! Email Kim Reuter, Director, for more information (kereuter@theladybugproject.com)!

We have just sent another box of school supplies to our schools in Moka, Equaotorial Guinea! Composed entirely of donations, from a variety of donors, the supplies include notebooks, business clothing for the teachers, and even some arts and crafts materials. With this latest supply shipment, we have now sent 766 pounds of supplies to Equatorial Guinea in less than one year!

Interested in donating used and new supplies? Check out this page.

For more information on how you can help, email our Executive Director, Kim Reuter: kereuter@theladybugproject.com

We are excited to announce our new partnership with the Ghanaian registered NGO Bediako YouthAid Foundation! In addition, we are proud to report on the development of two unique internship opportunities that we have developed together with the YouthAid Foundation: our AIDS/HIV Health Educator Internship and our Teaching Internships, both of which take place in the Jasika-area of Ghana, West Africa!

For more information, please visit our page dedicated to this internship opportunity!

Check out today's Naples Daily News Community section, which features a full page spread (and three color pictures!) about our scholarship student and The Ladybug Project's mission!

To read an online version of the article, please click here!

The Ladybug Project has launched its first annual supply drive to benefit our schools in Equatorial Guinea! Thanks to our exciting partnership with Simply Equal Education, we will be able to ship our school supplies at low-cost to our Central-West African recipients.

Starting today, five schools in Florida and several businesses will be collecting used school supplies from students as they clean out their lockers and prepare for their summer vacations. While it may not seem logical to send a half-used notebook to Africa, the success of this program through other organizations, and the lack of materials in some rural African schools, actually make the program rather ingenious. American half-used supplies being sent to Equatorial Guinea for underprivileged students to use, all at a total cost far below an African teacher's monetary burden of buying overpriced supplies in-country.

If you have supplies you would like to donate (no matter where you are in the world!), you can email us (ladybug.project.eg@gmail.com) or (if you happen to be in South Florida), we can organize a donation pick up free of charge. Supplies will then be repackaged and sent on a mid-July shipment to Equatorial Guinea.

So far we've accepted supplies from individuals in two states and in five cities; can YOU help US make a difference?

We are excited to announce that The Ladybug Project is now partnering with Simply Equal Education on our education projects in Equatorial Guinea!

Simply Equal Education was founded in 2008 and is a non-profit dedicated to advancing education in developing countries. With a track record of sending over 1000 pounds of supplies to Equatorial Guinea, it is certainly an asset to be working with such an successful organization.

With a joint mission to advance education in Equatorial Guinea, The Ladybug Project will be partnering with Simply Equal Education in sending supplies to our schools in Central-West Africa, and tentative plans have been discussed for a joint trip to Equatorial Guinea in 2012.

For more information on Simply Equal Education, and the inspiration behind their success, please visit their website: http://www.simplyequaleducation.org/index.html

Check out an article in today's Fort Myers News-Press (in print, and online) for a closer look at our Student Scholarship initiative, and Nguere, our first program recipient!

The article can be found online: http://www.news-press.com/article/20110514/NEWS0104/110513063/African-student-hopes-attend-FGCU-start-better-life

Kim, our Executive Director, and Ann, our FGCU Alumni Representative journeyed today to Miami International Airport where they picked up Nguere, our first Equatoguinean Student Scholar! For more information about our student scholar program, click here.

After journeying 25 hours through Madrid and finally arriving in America, he is excited to discover America and prepare for his upcoming TOEFL test. Starting Monday, Nguere will embark on an intensive, daily English course through the non-profit Literacy Council of Bonita Springs as well as weekly conversation courses through the Lee County Library System.

We will be sure to keep you posted as Nguere moves towards his goal of attending an institution of higher education here in Florida!

We've reached a huge milestone for The Ladybug Project! The first supplies were delivered to Equatorial Guinea!

School supplies were delivered today after they were flown into the country early last week by Jack, a volunteer who routinely flies between the United States and Equatorial Guinea!

Driven to the small village of Moka by Nguere, an in-country volunteer, notebooks, pens, and Minnesota Twins baseball caps were delivered for the 100 students of the Colegia National de Moka as well as the Pre-Escuela de Moka. In addition, we were able to provide much needed cleaning supplies and a table and four chairs for the Pre-Escuela de Moka, as requested by the teachers.

We have a long road ahead of us - the pre-school is in need of furniture and additional supplies, and the secondary school (the Colegia National de Moka) asked for sports equipment, reference materials, and maps of the world to decorate the school walls.

Thanks to everyone who made this supply drop-off possible! In the future, we hope to continue regular supply shipments, and as always we will make sure the aid is tailored to the schools!