Kit the Season!

Kit Contents

(NEW items only)

For a PDF of kit contents, click here.

Hygiene kits

• 1 toothbrush (adult size; leave in wrapper)
• 1 squeeze-tube toothpaste (minimum 130ml / 6oz; leave in box)
• 1 large bar of bath soap
• 1 fingernail clipper
• 1 hand towel (larger than fingertip, dark color)

School kits

• 4 spiral or perforated notebooks (about 21.5cm x 27cm / 8.5in x 10.5in and 140 pages)
• 4 unsharpened pencils
• 1 ruler (flat, flexible plastic; indicating both 30cm and 12in)
• 12 colored pencils (in packaging)
• 1 large pencil eraser

Hygiene kits and school kits are distributed in a useful double drawstring cloth bag (28cm x 40.6cm / 11in x 16in). You may sew the bag yourself (instructions), request bags from an MCC collection center or donate contents that we will place in a bag.

Kit contents may be donated without a bag, or you may request pre-sewn bags from MCC's material resource centre by calling 1-800-313-6226. 

Bring completed kits or contents to any of the drop-off locations listed on the right →→→

More info on Kits

Hygiene kits (formerly known as health kits, as in the video below) are often presented to children living in refugee camps who do not have access to hygiene supplies. Some are given to women in rural education centers to encourage health care. People in such countries as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Haiti, Nicaragua, North Korea, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine have received hygiene kits in the past few years.

School kits are MCC's most-requested item. Notebooks and pencils become treasures to families who struggle to afford basic school supplies. School kits are also given to refugee and displaced children, helping students and teachers add some normalcy to disrupted lives. They are frequently requested after natural disasters. MCC sends school kits to places including Iraq, Nicaragua, North Korea and to poorly funded schools in Canada and the United States.