My students need help with transportation to attend a life-changing college visit to VCU in Richmond, Virgina. This is their FIRST college visit ever, let's make it happen!
$1,469 goal
Hooray! This project is fully funded
Hooray! This project is fully funded
My Students
Imagine moving to a new country. You walk into a classroom and you may not have ever had any formal education before. You have never read or written and you have this smiling teacher talking to you in a language you don't understand. These are the students I teach every day.
I work in a large school with a very high immigrant population in the Washington D.C.
Area.
Many of my students have very limited schooling in their own language and are now thrust into a formal school setting. We move from learning letters to reading very quickly. We help students learn English while holding on and becoming literate in their own language as well. My students have come from all around the world, from many different and often difficult situations. They hold the American Dream, but need the tools to make them successful.
Many of my students have never even thought of going to college after they finish public school. As a teacher, my goal is to inspire them to never give up. I make it a goal to take them to a university trip at least once a year. I want them to see and feel the experience!
My Project
Going to college is a goal that many of us have. My students also have this dream, but to many of them, this seems like an impossible goal. As part of our commitment to empower our students, we want to take a group of our students to visit Virginia Commonwealth University for a day.
This will be the first trip ANY of our students take to a college campus.
We want to show them that, they will be able to attend in a few years. It is never too early to start thinking about studies after high school.
We are asking donors to help us raise funds to make this happen. Let's give our wonderful students an experience that they will not only remember, but that will also empower them to keep fighting!
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