My students need colored pencils and erasers to start the new school year.
$519 goal
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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month
This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
Due to extreme budgetary restraints, this year our art students are forced to use scraps of colored pencils left over from previous years. Many are so small that they can never be sharpened again. We are also using old erasers which dirty our artwork.
We are an urban New Jersey school situated in a deplorable neighborhood.
Most students are provided with free lunches and for some this is their only nutritious meal of the day.
2010 was a terrible blow to our school with all of the cuts in the New Jersey state budget. Our needs are many and we do our best to provide basic supplies in our classrooms in order to provide these at-risk students with the quality education that they deserve. Our teachers and students work hard every day to close the learning gap, quantified by our rising standardized test scores.
Our art budget was hit hard this year and we can only provide some of the supplies we would like to have for our students. We are currently using leftover colored pencils and erasers, which I would love to replace with new ones. So much creative potential is lying dormant in these little people and I would love to be able to inspire their greatness!
My Project
New colored pencils and erasers would eliminate the need for sharing supplies, allowing the students' creative imaginations to soar. Too much of their positive energy is wasted on the frustrations involved in waiting to use a particular color or seeing a project destroyed by a blackened eraser.
Please won't you help us obtain these basic but necessary art supplies for our budding artists?!
Our students are living in a gray and often colorless world filled with unspeakable challenges. Please let your generosity help us fill their world with color!
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