Thursday, 24 October 2019

A Dozen Patchwork Punkins


Four years ago, when he was in middle school, Dylan Ence visited Patamban Michoacan, Mexico with his family. They saw children living in poverty and struggling to get an education. While there, his family purchased and donated sporting goods for the local school’s physical education classes. Dylan noticed many students were staying at the school over the holiday weekend. He learned children would walk to school and stay for months to be sure they could get to classes. That’s when Dylan decided to donate a bus. “Why can’t I do that?” he said, “Shoot for something big, and maybe make a change.” He purchased a used school bus from Minnesota and drove it back to Utah, where family and friends are filling it with backpacks, school supplies, clothing and other donations. Soon Dylan’s family and another family will take the bus to Mexico. “It’s been a long project of small donations,” he says. “It just jumped to a bigger one.”

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