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Ms. H.'s classroom raised $477

Dictionaries for Refugees & Immigrants

My students need 20 Spanish/English dictionaries and single copies of 11 different bilingual dictionaries, covering languages including Chinese, Swahili, Arabic, French and Hindi.

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Ms. H.
Grades 9-12

Have you ever stayed home from school for fear of being shot? Many of my students have lived with that fear for most of their lives. I serve high school students from more than 20 countries, many of whom are refugees from Africa, Cuba, and Eastern Europe. They are so grateful to be in a country where they enjoy a safe, secure school environment and are free to get an education without fearing for their lives. You have never seen a more eager group of teenagers!

Almost all of our international students come from very low income families and many of them have little or no exposure to the English language outside of the classroom. Most come from single parent homes and many have lost one or both parents in civil wars in their native countries. Unfortunately, our district is financially strapped and we are not always able to provide the children with materials to take home to study.

Being able to buy bilingual and picture dictionaries that we could loan to the students would not only help them succeed in ESL but also to have even greater success in their regular ed classes. (Imagine trying to take classes in a foreign country without so much as a dictionary to help you translate!)

These students have overcome so many obstacles to get here. It is within your power to help them overcome the last barrier they face... the English language! Thank you so much for helping them achieve their true potential.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

40 students impacted 8 donors
Ms. H. Grades 9-12

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

40 students impacted 8donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Swahili/English Pocket Dictionary Jospeh Safari, Hamis Akida • Barnes and Noble $23.35 1 $23.35
Oxford Picture Dictionary (English/Arabic) Norma Shapiro, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein • Barnes and Noble $14.27 1 $14.27
The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary R. S. McGregor (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $40.50 1 $40.50
Hindi-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary DK Publishing, Saloni Talwar (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $11.65 1 $11.65
Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Chinese Norma Shapiro, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein • Barnes and Noble $13.81 1 $13.81
New Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Chinese E. C. Parnwell • Barnes and Noble $10.66 1 $10.66
French-English Dictionary: Dictionnaire Fran ais-Anglais Barron's, Majka Dischler (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $15.29 1 $15.29
Larousse Facil: Escribir Ingles Editors of Larousse (Mexico) (Editor) • Barnes and Noble $5.85 1 $5.85
Ingles Para Latinos, Vol. 1 William C. Harvey, Paul Meisel (Illustrator) • Barnes and Noble $8.79 10 $87.90
Merriam-Webster's Pocket French-English Dictionary Merriam-Webster Staff • Barnes and Noble $4.45 1 $4.45
New Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Spanish E. C. Parnwell (Editor), Pamela Johnson (Illustrator), Sergio Gaitan (Translator) • Barnes and Noble $10.26 1 $10.26
Spanish-English/Dictionary • AKJ Books $5.22 20 $104.40

Materials cost

$342.39

Vendor shipping charges

 $34.24

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.14

Fulfillment labor & materials

$9.00

Total project cost

$390.77

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$85.78

Total project goal

$476.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $476.55

4 Donors

-$217.89

Donations toward project cost

-$195.39

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$22.50

match offer

-$238.27

Match offer toward project cost

-$195.38

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.89

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$20.39

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 $0.00

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