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Ms. Sandoval from Oakland CA is requesting sports & exercise equipment through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Footwear for Our Mexican Baile Folklorico Performance

Help me give my students socks and shoes that they can keep after we practice and perform an authentic Baile Folklorico dance at our school's Culture Assembly.

  • $361 goal

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate 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.

My Students

I teach a group of twenty-six first grade students in one of the cities with the highest crime rate in the nation. All the ​students at my school site receive free lunch. A full 97% of my school's student population is Hispanic, and most of them are first-generation in the United States. At least 15% of my students are newcomers to the country. School is one of the only places at which my students interact with someone who speaks academic English.

Living and attending school in a highly impoverished, urban setting, my students are not exposed to many educational experiences outside of the classroom.

Exposing my students to different types of learning while keeping them engaged and entertained is very important to me.

My Project

Every school year we have a presentation in which we dance to a traditional Mexican Folkloric song. We practice a lot so that we have a beautiful performance. We have the outfits for the students but not the shoes. Many times, parents are unable to buy them the shoes necessary for the performance. Most students end up wearing their own worn-out shoes, usually sneakers. This year, I am asking for your support so that all of my students can have their own shoes and for the performance and then they get to keep them to use as their own. I have requested socks for a few of them as well. My students really need this.

The shoes that they wear now are worn-out and surely not so comfortable anymore.

I´ve asked for a size larger than what they currently wear to make sure that the shoes fit them well when they begin to use them at the end of the school year.

Ms. Sandoval
Grades PreK-2

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Chiximaxu Maxu Girl's Sandals Mary Jane Shoes with Bowknot Black,Little Kid Size 1 • Amazon Business $24.99 4 $99.96
STELLE 1.5'' Character Dance Shoes for Women (Black, 7M) • Amazon Business $27.88 1 $27.88
Chiximaxu Maxu Girl's Sandals Mary Jane Shoes with Bowknot Black,Little Kid Size 11 • Amazon Business $24.99 1 $24.99
NINE WEST Girls' VIIVIEN Flat, Dark TAN, 6 M US Big Kid • Amazon Business $19.99 1 $19.99
NINE WEST Girls' VIIVIEN Flat, White, 6 M US Big Kid • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Gold Toe Big Girls' 6-Pack Liner Socks Light Tie Dye Large • Amazon Business $14.00 1 $14.00
Gold Toe Big Girls' 6-Pack Liner Socks White Large • Amazon Business $13.24 1 $13.24
Gold Toe Big Girls' 6-Pack Liner Socks Stripes Large • Amazon Business $11.89 1 $11.89
Champion Kids' Big 6-Pack Socks in Quarter or Low Cut, 030, 9-11 • Amazon Business $11.42 1 $11.42
Gold Toe Women's 3-Pack Ultratec Qurarter Socks, Black, Shoe Size: 6-9 • Amazon Business $10.50 1 $10.50

Materials cost

$249.86

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $22.86

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.75

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$306.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$54.08

Total project goal

$360.55

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $360.55

5 Donors

-$359.67

Donations toward project cost

-$306.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$53.20

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$0.88

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 $0.00

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