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Mrs. Guaman from Durham, NC is requesting musical instruments through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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World Drumming for Elementary School Students!

Help me give my students two tubano drums to play in music class and in concerts!

FULLY FUNDED! Mrs. Guaman's classroom raised $627

This project is fully funded

My Students

My students show pride in everything they do! I love their smiles each morning when they come to school, and I love watching how older siblings help their younger siblings get breakfast and get to class. Being the music teacher at this school means I see 580+ students every week and being new to the school means there is still a lot to learn about each and every one of them. This project is for the 5th graders in particular, to give them a special unit in drumming.

My Project

My students would love to experience world drumming! Help them have access to these wonderful tubano drums for use in music class and for concerts. These drums will give my students the opportunity to create their own rhythm compositions and to perform accompaniments to the songs we sing! They will also have the opportunity to improvise on their new drums. I hope to build their collection of world instruments over time, but know that the drums are the most important foundation. Eventually the set will hopefully include agogo bells and shakeres to play African ensemble music. Please help us build the foundation of our goal!

Mrs. Guaman Parkwood Elementary School Grades 3-5

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

Equity Focus

This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

Durham, 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

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Where Your Donation Goes

Materials Cost Quantity Total
100 Series Tunable Tubano • Woodwind and Brasswind $230.00 2 $460.00

Materials cost

$460.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$35.88

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.90

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$532.78

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$94.02

Total project goal

$626.80

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$626.80

5 Donors

-$488.78

Donations toward project cost

-$426.53

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.25

match offer

-$125.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$106.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$18.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$13.02

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$0.00

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