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Mr. Desimone from Valhalla NY is requesting technology through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Toy Library for the Disabled

My disabled students need an adaptive toy library so that these students as a well as their parents can interact with toys like normal kids do.

  • $371 goal

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I am director of technology within my school district. We service students who are critically ill, the traumatic brain injured, cancer and heart patients, as well as students that are physically disabled purchased within

My school district is suffering through severe financial constraints. Any supplies that are obtained come from donations only. I do not have a budget. Thus I borrow and beg from anyone I can.

These students are disabled children who need adaptive toys to play with like any other child. These toys will be part of a toy library in which parents, students, and staff may borrow at any time. All of these toys are special because they can be activated by a single large button or switch, in which a child can control with just a single movement. The toys I am looking to purchase are a boom box for older students, and a remote control puppy, chicken and zebra for younger students.

These students desperately need toys to play with. They need to have the same simple opportunities as regular disabled kids. Their families have suffered enough even in these economic times. Some of these students are terminal and suffer through pain each and everyday. A toy can at least distract a child from a medical procedure and make it more tolerable. Please help and put a smile on a child's face

Mr. Desimone
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Reward Toys (Effect) — Zoe Zebra • Abilitations, Inc. $48.99 1 $48.99
Reward Toys (Effect) — Wooly The Sheep • Abilitations, Inc. $48.99 1 $48.99
Adapted Venture Puppy Toy • Abilitations, Inc. $35.99 1 $35.99
Reward Toys (Effect) — Boom Box • Abilitations, Inc. $72.59 1 $72.59
Reward Toys (Effect) — Rikki Rooster • Abilitations, Inc. $48.99 1 $48.99

Materials cost

$255.55

Vendor shipping charges

 $25.56

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$17.00

Total project cost

$304.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$66.73

Total project goal

$370.73

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $370.73

2 Donors

-$353.24

Donations toward project cost

-$304.00

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$49.24

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.49

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 $0.00

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