Kelty has inked a specialty contract with the U.S. State Department for the purchase of 110,000 daypacks. The packs
will be filled with basic school supplies and distributed by the State Department to school-age children in 13 countries.
Kenny Ballard, president of Kelty said, “To be a significant part of an international scholastic outreach program with one of our strongest baseline products really spotlights our versatility and reliability.”
The Kelty daypacks will be distributed to school age children in Cambodia, Mali, Chad, Mauritania, Comoros, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Nigeria, Algeria, Thailand, Tunisia and Indonesia.
Each of the daypacks will include an abridged version of the photographic
book “America 24/7,” a world map, and a variety of basic school supplies
such as pencils, pens, rulers, and notebooks.
The packs also will have a sewn-in tag reading ³with the friendship of the
people of the United States of America² in the country¹s native tongue.
