Master Sgt. Terrence Reyes, the operations NCOIC for Task Force Wings hands a bag of school supplies to a student at Bolla Baba High School here Oct. 1. Task Force Wings, along with TF 77, conducted a humanitarian assistance visit and key leader engagement at the school to meet with the headmaster and principal of the school. At one time, the school had nearly 700 students, but attendance declined to around 250 students due to insurgent threats against families that sent their children there. As the school works to rebuild its student body, the school leaders said it faces logistical challenges. They expressed a need for general supplies, chairs and storage areas. To help with these shortages, the task forces provided the school with nine desks, 22 chairs, six boxes of paper, three boxes of pencils, 10 sleeping mats, 10 soccer and basketballs, three boxes of construction paper, and eight boxes of scissors, pencil sharpeners, erasers, colored pencils, crayons and markers. They also distributed 30 RIAB radios, which will allow the students to access radio broadcasts of a literacy program to aid in their educational progress.
<dl><dd>Unit: 159th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs</dd>
<dd>DVIDS Tags: school; deployed; troops; 101st Airborne Division; children; students; soldiers; education; Air Assault; humanitarian assistance; supplies; aviation; Task Force Wings; Task Force Thunder; Lithuanians</dd></dl>
4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment
Taken on 1 October 2011
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