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Mrs. Wampler from Kansas City MO is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Help me give my students soccer balls, recycling bins, vests, soil and seeds to help beautify our school and create sustainability.

  • $542 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Our school lies in the heart of Kansas City. Nearby is the Jewish Vocational Services. They bring in and place refugee families who are fleeing oppression and war. Many of our students come out of these situations. These children battle social, emotional, and cultural boundaries in their everyday learning. Some of our students are born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and we are learning to bridge racial boundaries. Our entire student population qualifies for free lunch and breakfast, but still, our students are frequently hungry.

My job is to teach students in a manner that allows their personalities to thrive, their culture to be maintained, and my expectations to stay high.

Many students start becoming ashamed of their home language and they quit speaking it. I try to be an advocate for them to maintain diverse minds and hearts so they can remain open to the world. Some days are spent feeding their physical and emotional needs before even sharpening our pencils. We work together to find each students' strengths, building upon those as we learn together.

My Project

We've created a Sustainability club, and our students are working to make our school cleaner and safer. Our hope is to supply each room with recycling bins, students staffed to help the process, and materials to help grown our own vegetables.

By investing in our sustainability, our hope is to teach generations how to properly care for their community through reducing, reusing, and recycling.

Teaching our students is important, but having them live in the responsibility, I believe, will allow them to care more of how their community is protected and how it will grow! Our kids will have the opportunity to teach lessons to the lower grades as a "Sustainability Club" by modeling how to collect and recycle using the recycling bins, wearing their "sustainability garb" and influence their community.

Mrs. Wampler
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
Miracle-Gro Potting Mix, 16 qt., 2-Pack • Amazon Business $15.98 15 $239.70
Franklin Sports Soccer Balls - Size 4 F-100 Soccer Balls - Youth Soccer Balls - 12 Pack Bulk Soccer Balls with Pump • Amazon Business $67.21 1 $67.21
G & F Products 41113 Industrial Safety Vest with Reflective Stripes, Neon Orange • Amazon Business $4.47 15 $67.05
Super Z Outlet Nylon Mesh Scrimmage Team Practice Vests Pinnies Jerseys for Children Youth Sports Soccer, Volleyball, Football, Basketball (12 Jerseys) • Amazon Business $22.99 1 $22.99
AmazonCommercial 10 Gallon Commercial Office Wastebasket, Blue, w/ Recycle Logo, 1-pack • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Heirloom Vegetable Seeds -100% Non-GMO - 1000 Garden Seeds Survival Pack - Tomato, Broccoli, Carrot, Celery, Cucumber Seeds and More • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99

Materials cost

$423.93

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.36

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$460.29

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.23

Total project goal

$541.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$541.52

3 Donors

-$266.34

Donations toward project cost

-$233.89

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$32.45

match offer

-$266.35

Match offer toward project cost

-$226.40

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.95

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$8.82

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$0.00

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