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ABOUT
A Bit of Background
Pensili is the living memory of Jeremiah "Jerry" McKenna, who was lovingly nicknamed "The Pencil Man" during his years of service to Bayou Woods Elementary School in Slidell, LA selling pencils. He always had a smile on his face and didn't take life too seriously, making Pensili the perfect name for his memorial foundation. Pensili means pencil in Swahili, the official language of Kenya. Originally, Pensili was focused on donating school supplies and jump ropes to children in Kenya. Due to COVID temporarily restricting travel, Pensili has now expanded to providing handmade, decorative crayons to children in the two Ochsner LSU Shreveport hospitals and donating school supplies to local Shreveport afterschool outreach programs: Common Ground in Cedar Grove and Broadmoor STEM Academy .
WHAT WE DO
SCHOOL SUPPLY DONATIONS
To Children in Kenya
GLASSES AND TOOTHBRUSH DRIVES
For Patients in Kenya
CRAYON CARE PACKAGES
For Patients in Shreveport Hospitals
For Shreveport Outreach Programs
For Wisconsin's Central Wisconsin Center
“The most wasted of all days is a day without laughter.”
Written by E.E. Cummings, this was Jerry McKenna's life motto.
CONTACT PENSILI JMM FOUNDATION
1228 Saint Scholastica St., Slidell, LA, 70460
(985) 285-7672