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Changing lives: One pencil at a time...

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In a bid to make education more accessible to the 124 million children around the world not in school, Evan Lewis is introducing Share A Pencil Day. He explains more about the initiative, taking place on May 17, and the resources available for schools

I run a company which specialises in recycled promotional items such as pens and pencils made from recycled CD cases.

In September 2014, we purchased a pencil-making machine which, at first, could make about two million pencils each year.

Through some small alterations and machine improvements, capacity soon reached around three million pencils a year. This made us ask ourselves: “What can we do with the spare one million pencils the machine now produces each year?”

This is how the idea behind the “giving enterprise” Hope was born. Through Hope, we have now launched Share A Pencil Day.

There’s the obvious link between pencils and education, which we all know is the single most important element to help lift a child and their family out of poverty.

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