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Mrs. Bellich from Asheville, NC is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Mrs. Bellich's classroom raised $573

We Are Digging Our School

My students need a simple composter for organic material recycled from our school day, a worm composter to see the change in matter, and a bag of soil to begin our composting.

This project expired on May 21, 2013.

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Mrs. Bellich Oakley Elementary School
Asheville, NC Grades 3-5

My Students

Help our students find their green thumbs. We all have one but sometimes it takes others to help us find it. I want to offer our children the opportunity to become avid gardeners by working in our campus garden. We want to experience composting to enrich our soil for our vegetable and flower garden

We are a Title I school with a large population of our children on free and reduced lunches.

We are fortunate to have a variety of ethnicities in our school and are in a fairly urban area. Many of our live in housing projects and do not have open spaces for outdoor gardening and therefore do not have the opportunity to plant and grow any type of vegetation. Please help me be able to enable our students to become excited about gardening.

My Project

We are off and running. Or should I say we are off and digging. We are getting ready to begin preparation of our campus garden for spring planting. Our students will learn the benefits of replenishing our earth with vegetation along with having a blast growing their own food. They will grow their plants from seeds and will harvest their crop of herbs and vegetables for consumption. I know our students will try vegetables that they grow with great excitement. We want our students to learn about the carbon footprint that is being left behind and how each individual can help preserve our earth.

Please help me give our students an opportunity they may never have.

We take for granted some of the pleasures of life with gardening being one of them. Some children will not have the opportunity to have their very own garden if it were not for caring giving people like you. Make my students lifelong earth children who eat vegetabes and herbs.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Nearly all students from low‑income households

40 students impacted 10 donors
Mrs. Bellich Oakley Elementary School Grades 3-5

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Asheville, NC View local requests

Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

40 students impacted 10donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Composter, Schoolyard Gourmet • Carolina Biological Supply Company $125.40 1 $125.40
Worm Composter Classroom Kit • Carolina Biological Supply Company $102.60 2 $205.20
Potting Soil, 2 cu ft Bag • Carolina Biological Supply Company $52.25 1 $52.25

Materials cost

$382.85

Vendor shipping charges

 $38.28

Sales tax

 $29.86

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.74

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$486.73

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$85.89

Total project goal

$572.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $572.62

6 Donors

-$277.49

Donations toward project cost

-$243.37

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$34.12

match offer

-$286.31

Match offer toward project cost

-$243.36

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$42.95

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.83

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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