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Our Story The scorching Cambodian sun backlit the plastic bags that were being carried by small children as they scavenged through garbage for something to eat or sell . As we stood and watched the smell was overwhelming and bits of garbage blew through the air getting stuck in our hair and eyelashes burning our eyes. This was these children’s every day reality.

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Page 1: Educating children - ace of good

Our StoryThe scorching Cambodian sun backlit the plastic bags that were being carried by small children as they scavenged through garbage for something to eat or sell . As we stood and watched the smell was overwhelming and bits of garbage blew through the air getting stuck in our hair and eyelashes burning our eyes. This was these children’s every day reality.

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Empowering Women

When the Ace of Good makes our delivery trips, instead of bringing backpacks from the United States, we source them locally through our women’s empowerment programs. We sponsor free seamstress job-skills training and then offer

our graduates employment to sew our backpacks. Our program offers women an opportunity for financial

independence, eases poverty in their community, and crates beautifully made backpacks for children in need.

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Educating ChildrenThe UN estimates that 120 million children are denied an education every year, many due to their inability to afford school supplies or fees. Education is the key to fighting poverty, hunger, disease, terrorism, global warming, you name it: almost every problem can be addressed through education.

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Travel With UsThe Ace of Good is bringing philanthropic travel to a new level. In partnership with Go Philanthropic, we have created an externship program where college and graduate school students can get real life work experience while traveling the world to make deliveries to children in need.

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THE AMERICA COLLECTION

The America Collection was born out of the Ace of Good mission to serve the children of our Military Families in the USA who are living below the poverty line and cannot afford school supplies for their children. The

sequester and the recent government shut down has further adversely affected our Military Families. At Ace of Good we knew that our

upcoming deliveries to Military Bases in the US would require a special collection: a backpack and messenger bag made in the USA.

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KISSI COLLECTION

Each Kisii Bag is hand made by a women of the Kisii village in Kenya. Because they have not had access to education and have no jobs skills, improving their lives for themselves and their children has been difficult. Ace of Good is proud to work with the women of Kisii, providing jobs skills training and offering them employment sewing our Kisii Collection of backpacks and messenger bags. The results are stunning. When you purchase a bag from our Kisii Collection not only are you helping to empower these Kisii women, but for every bag sold, Ace of Good delivers another bag, filled with school supplies, to a local child in need, making education possible.