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Ms. Pliego from West Jordan, UT is requesting lab equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Equitable Access to Healthy Food

Help me give my students bags that won't break when they walk home from school with canned food (Large reusable shopping bags) and a small fridge to allow us to keep fresher, healthier options.

  • $900 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

My students are from many different cultural backgrounds from all over the world: Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, and the Polynesian Islands, to name a few. We have also had a large influx of immigrants come to our school. With the combination of immigrant families who move here with nothing and our school being in a lower-income area, many families don't have much money. We love our diversity and want to promote equity by giving these students access to the essentials.

My Project

As school counselors, we want our students to be successful in school. Being successful at school is concentrating on schoolwork, not hunger, and attending school instead of watching siblings while parents work to provide for families. For this reason, I have chosen to support our school's principal pantry.

We have loved the support we have received from the community, but we are running into blind areas that we cannot provide at our pantry.

First, we have donors who want to donate fresh produce, meat, and dairy products, but we have no place to keep these items. We also feel our student families would benefit from having healthier options of food, which generally have to be refrigerated. Adding a fridge to our space opens up these options to our families that may not have had access to otherwise. Schools are seen as the information gateway to other community resources. The purpose of our pantry is to give these students' families an extra boost until they can find a more permanent source of help.

Second, when these students and families come to our pantry, we have plastic bags to send the food home in. These plastic grocery bags do not hold up well to canned food and are not big enough to put shoes or coats in. For this reason, we want reusable bags that families can bring back that are large and not going to fall apart as they walk home.

By helping our students and families in this way, we hope our students will have basic needs taken care of. We also tried to get support from the Utah Food Bank. We qualified last year, but since lunch is accessible now from COVID, we don't have the fee waiver numbers.

Ms. Pliego
Grades 6-8
  • Joel P Jensen Middle School
  • West Jordan, UT
    • More than a third of 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

    This project will reach 55 students.

    2 donors have given to this project.

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
TK62896864T Refrigerator 7.4 cu ft Refrigerator Capacity, 59 7/8 in Overall Ht, 24 in Overall Wd • Grainger $527.11 1 $527.11
TK62896862T Reusable Shopping Bag, Bag WxDxH 22 in x 14 in x 15-1/4 in, Thickness 1.85 mil, Polypropylene • Grainger $196.40 1 $196.40

Materials cost

$723.51

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$10.85

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$764.36

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$134.89

Total project goal

$899.25

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $899.25

1 Donor

-$449.62

Donations toward project cost

-$382.18

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.44

match offer

-$449.62

Match offer toward project cost

-$382.18

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$67.44

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 $0.00

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