Clean Air for the Tigers

Funded Feb 15, 2023

We are so grateful here at the Arnone Elementary School for all that you have done for us. The Donors Choose project has touched so many of our students and made for a better experience for the students when they are visiting the nurse's office. We were provided with things such as paper towels, a couple mist humidifiers, hand soap, water, hydrogen peroxide, and disinfecting wipes. These are among essential things that are needed in a school nurses office that we were not adequately stocked with but were fortunate enough to receive from the donors!

The humidifiers were essential for the new group of students that recently came to the school. This new group of students are used to a different climate so were more prone to bloody noses in our classrooms, these humidifiers were able to reduce the number of bloody noses. The hand soap and hydrogen peroxide were also essential due to all the scrapes and scratches we get around here! Students are constantly coming in with various scrapes and are needed to be cleaned off and washed out so they don't get infected. The disinfectant wipes are used to clean our office for when we have sick kids laying in the office or coming in contact with other objects that need to be wiped down after to not spread to other children.

The students were quite excited to see the new materials, especially the humidifiers! Students come down throughout the day to go to the bathroom, wash their hands, wash their cuts and scrapes, so being able to have full access to hand soap and paper towels in the bathroom is great for them. At times when they would come down to the nurse's office, we wouldn't have antibacterial soap for them to properly wash themselves, so they were definitely excited to see the new additions, as were we! The students using the humidifiers are very appreciative since they are no longer getting as many bloody noses and feel more comfortable in the classroom! The teachers of those classes are just as grateful too because now they aren't sending kids down to the nurse's office with bloody noses as often and they can continue to learn in the classroom.

In the future we will continue to use Donors Choose as they have had such a positive impact on our school. We can't thank the donors enough for all that they have done for us and our students here at the Arnone. Our office, the staff, the students, and their families are all extremely thankful that we are being provided with so many essential materials that are directly helping the students throughout their days at school. It is important that we have all the necessary means for each child when they come down to see us so that we can help them to the best of our abilities. Without Donors Choose we would not have the opportunity to adequately provide for all our students and that would in turn have an effect on their education. Donors Choose has made it possible for us to help as many students as possible!”

With gratitude,

Mrs. Nurse Casey