Our Projects
Small Acts. Lasting Impact.
At Eddies Teddies, our projects begin with a simple question: What can we do, together, to give a child a greater opportunity to learn, grow, and dream?
From building classrooms and providing school supplies to supporting literacy, menstrual health education, and community partnerships, our work is shaped by the needs of the children and communities we serve. Sometimes that means building something. Sometimes it means filling a backpack, opening a book, having an important conversation, or simply showing up.
Impact doesn’t always come with paved roads.
Some communities are easier to reach than others. During one of our trips, heavy rains and flooding turned the journey into muddy roads, stuck vehicles, rerouting, teamwork, and quite a bit of improvisation. But the children were waiting.
So we kept going.
Every project is different. The purpose is always the same: empowering children to dream.
The Next Project Starts With You.
A backpack.
A book.
A classroom.
A menstrual health kit.
A reading session.
A safe place to learn.
Individually, they may seem small.
Together, they create opportunity.
Help us empower another child to dream.
2027 Fundraising Goal: $40,000
Ways to Help
Menstrual Health & Dignity
Education should never stop because of a period.
Our menstrual health work combines access to essential products with something equally important: knowledge, dignity, and conversation.
We work with students to provide menstrual health education, distribute menstrual products, answer questions, and help create environments where menstruation can be discussed without embarrassment or shame.
We believe menstrual health is not only a girls’ issue. Boys, men, families, teachers, and communities all have a role in creating supportive environments where girls can participate fully in school.
Building Places to Learn
Creating spaces where possibility can grow.
Our work goes beyond providing supplies. When communities identify infrastructure as a barrier to education, we work alongside local partners to help create better places for children to learn.
The Lolito Primary School classroom project represents what is possible when donors, volunteers, educators, and a community come together around children. What began as a need became a building, and that building became a place where generations of children can learn.
Equipping Children to Learn
Sometimes opportunity starts with something as simple as a pencil.
For many of the children we serve, school supplies that can easily be taken for granted are meaningful resources. Eddies Teddies provides backpacks, notebooks, writing materials, books, educational tools, and other supplies directly to students and classrooms.
But we are not simply handing children things.
Every backpack carries another message:
You matter. Your education matters. Your dreams matter.
Learning Through Play
Because childhood should include joy.
Education happens beyond books and classrooms.
Through games, sports, creative activities, and shared experiences, our volunteers create opportunities for children to play, connect, build confidence, and simply enjoy being children.
Literacy & Reading
Opening books. Opening worlds.
Reading has been part of Eddies Teddies from the beginning. Through book donations, classroom activities, reading clinics, and direct engagement with students, we help create opportunities for children to discover the joy of reading.
Our volunteers don’t simply deliver books. We sit down and read together.
Community Partnerships
We don’t arrive with all the answers. We begin by listening.
Sustainable impact requires relationships.
Eddies Teddies works alongside teachers, parents, community leaders, local organizations, volunteers, and supporters to understand needs and develop projects that make sense for each community.
Our goal isn’t to do something for a community and leave.
It is to build something with a community that can continue long after we return home.