How Your Vote for School in a Bag Can Help Transform Lives Through Education

School in a Bag, a UK-based charity dedicated to education, has been selected as one of the featured charities in My Favourite Voucher Codes’ September Charity Poll. School in a Bag is a transformative charity dedicated to empowering underprivileged children worldwide by providing them with essential tools for education and daily life. Keep reading to learn more about this impactful charity and how your vote could secure vital support for their mission this month.

Who Are School in a Bag and What Do They Do?

School in a Bag is committed to improving access to education for disadvantaged children worldwide. Their approach is simple but powerful: they provide specially designed SchoolBags filled with essential learning materials and eating utensils such as notebooks, pencils, math sets, and art supplies, alongside mealtime and hygiene essentials such as lunchboxes, water bottles, soap, and toothbrushes. Each bag is funded by donors, with every one uniquely numbered, allowing donors to track its journey and often receive updates, including photos of the recipient. This transparency ensures that supporters see exactly where their contributions are making a difference.

What’s Inside a SchoolBag?

Each SchoolBag contains essential tools designed to help children learn and thrive. Typical contents include:

• Stationery: Pencils, pens, colored pencils, a math set, a ruler, a pencil case, and six exercise books.
• Mealtime Essentials: A water bottle, a lunchbox, and a spork.
• Hygiene Kit: A flannel, soap, a toothbrush, and toothpaste.

These items empower children to attend school prepared with the resources they need. For many, such supplies are out of reach due to financial hardship or displacement caused by crises. SchoolBags help remove these barriers, leading to significant improvements in school attendance, particularly for girls. Increased attendance often results in better grades and greater opportunities for higher education, paving the way for brighter futures.

Why Is This Work Important?

Many children who dream of bright futures are unable to achieve their goals without an education. By providing SchoolBags, School in a Bag supports their aspirations and helps create a path toward a better future for them and their families.

To date, over 153,000 SchoolBags have been distributed across 58 countries, but with more than 250 million children worldwide unable to attend school, the need remains immense. With your help, the charity can expand its reach and bring hope to even more young lives.

How to Contact School in a Bag

School in a Bag would love to hear from you! You can get in touch via:

• Email: hello@schoolinabag.org
• Phone: +44 (0)1925 849160
• Website: www.schoolinabag.org

How You Can Help School in a Bag

The easiest way to support School in a Bag right now is by voting for them in the My Favourite Voucher Codes charity poll this January. Simply visit our homepage, find the poll (on the right-hand side on desktop or at the bottom of the page on mobile), and click on School in a Bag. Remember, you don’t need to use vouchers to vote, but any voucher purchases made will contribute to the donation pool for the winning charity!

If you’d like to further support their work, visit their website to learn more or make a donation directly: https://www.schoolinabag.org/donate.

The January charity poll will be open from 1st January 2025 - 31st January 2025.