My students need paper, markers, watercolor sets, mat boards and film to protect the portraits they will make for orphans in Nepal orphanages with the Memory Project Org.
$400 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
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.
Challenges facing the students I teach? Getting to school every day. Getting a meal in their stomachs. What we take for granted they don't. Once they get to school providing them with an invigorating challenging, curriculum is what I strive to provide by using art to teach math, science and history. (edit)
There are 741 students at my school.
Three hundred students in the art classes will make portraits of orphans in Nepal. 69.6% are Hispanic or Latino. 14% are black or African American. 88.5% are socioeconomically disadvantaged. 55.7% are English Learners and 16.5% are students with disabilities. Most of the students are bright faced, happy 6th-8th graders with the same concerns and interests of that age. Some students are homeless and some students come from very caring families. It's a mix of students that works well and provides a very diverse and rich student population. They are like any other kids their age with more needs in general. I enjoy them and find teaching them very rewarding.
My Project
I am requesting paper, markers, watercolors, sharpies, matboards and clean covers to protect their portraits of orphans in Nepal. the organization Memory project will send photographs of the orphans and the students at my school will make portraits and the portraits will be delivered to the orphans in Nepal. Memory Project will send back pictures of the orphans holding the portraits my students made and a video of them being delivered. I am trying to do this project around Christmas time. A hard time for the students in general at this school They will be thinking of giving to someone less fortunate them with the art they create. In the past this has been the most rewarding project for students I teach and for me the teacher. They will learn about Nepal as well,how they live, their family life, the climate and their history. We will study Nepal before students do the portraits. Art will be used to teach history and current events in Nepal. Art will be used, explored and created.
The project is important to students who I teach that don't have a lot or enough to give but with their talents and creativity they can make something important to a homeless, parent less child across the continent in a Nepal orphanage and see how all children are like them.
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