Extra! Extra! School Journalism Class in Trouble

Funded Jan 9, 2011

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your generous donations to my classroom. The digital cameras donated have been used with regularity. They have been used to take pictures for our budding school newspaper. They have also been used in my other classes when students are doing projects -- for both the camera and video aspects.

As soon as the camera's arrived, my journalism students excitedly took them out of the box. They wanted to run around the school instantly to take pictures -- so much so that I had to send students out in groups of two or three to choose pictures to take. Some students found a real aptitude for photography and several of the pictures taken have been used in our school newspaper. Because these are such high quality digital cameras, I know they will be used for years to come.

Your donations have impacted my students in a most important other way -- they have learned that there are many generous people in this world who will go out of their way to help complete strangers. Hopefully my students will have learned this lesson well and will pay it forward. ”

With gratitude,

Ms. Dives