Hi! My name is Emily.
I started Paper Pens Pencils after I realised that many people acquire surplus amounts of stationery especially pens, pencils, refill, notebooks and spare exercise books. As people grow older and have no use for these items they get discarded or sit at the back of their drawer where they won’t be used. This is also very common for kids at school who get new and updated stationery packs every year and end up with too much. Though while many are pondering what to do with all their excess stationery, others are struggling to support their children with the stationery requirements or funds needed when they go to school. |
After some thinking and research, I found there was no easy and accessible way that people could donate stationery to children and schools in need. As well I found that people forgot about all their extra stationery until they had no time but to put it into landfill and didn’t realise that others may greatly appreciate what they had too much of. Like the quote goes “One person’s trash is another person’s treasure.”
This is how Paper Pens Pencils was born. |