A basketball tournament where children in playa are the true winners! The KKIS Project received donations for school supplies that will help 40 kids! During the annual NCAA basketball tournament Cancun Challenge, students, teachers and parents from colleges in the USA...
Kids in public schools screaming with joy that they want to become Doctors, Lawyers, Architects, Teachers, Chefs and Entrepreneurs, received their school supplies in Playa del Carmen. And to make these dreams come true, the first step is to give them the tools. After...
Graduation season has begun for students in Mexico. Statistics from INEGI say that only 53% of 15 to 19-year-old students will attend high school. The time of the year where families, students and teachers celebrate graduations has begun in Playa del Carmen. For many...
A bag of school supplies in Mexico has a cost of only $20 USD. This makes a huge difference between a child going or not going to school. Donations to the school supply program are significantly down over previous years so we are launching a campaign called...
"There isn’t a kid who’s not smart. All children are smart, you just need to communicate with them, support them in everything they want to achieve and, more than anything, love them", Alicia, mother of two kids. Alicia Barabata had to leave school when she was 17...
"They say education is expensive but it is more expensive not to have an education" - Luis Santiago Pat Fernández. Born a Teacher Luis Santiago Pat Fernández was 22 years old when he began his life in public education. "My father was a teacher, he's now retired....
NCAA Division One Teams were invited to compete in the Cancun Challenge, by Triple Crown Sports at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya. For four years, Keeping Kids in School has been invited by Triple Crown Sports to take part in the Cancun...
During the second and third day of school, 2,402 kids in Playa del Carmen received their school supplies! Keeping Kids in School was born in 2012 with the School Supplies Program. Back then, we handed 258 bags with school supplies in La Guadalupana, Cristo Rey and...
Volunteers from the USA, England and Mexico teamed up to help KKIS! Travelers from California and Utah, as well as locals from England and the USA, arrived at 08:00 to help us pack bags with school supplies. Students from 1st to 2nd and from 4th to 6th grade at the...
Some KKIS scholars begin classes on Monday, so they received their school supplies today! Tenth grade KKIS scholars from CONALEP Playa del Carmen came to our head quarters today to receive their bags. Thanks to our donors, we could pack 78 bags with the...
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