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Ms. Rees from Durham, NC is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Pride in Color

Help me give my students the tools they need to be proud black and brown children, by seeing strong characters that look like them in literature.

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Celebrating Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

Celebrate Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month

This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

My students' area is a wonderful mixture of diversity. The school is in an urban setting and is majority African American and Latino. Ninety-seven percent of the student population receives free or reduced-price lunch and their test scores fall far below the state average.

I am a new teacher and want to help bring these students all that they deserve!

I am so looking forward to being a difference to these students and you can help me make that happen for them.

My Project

My students come from a school that is minority based, yet the books I have for them to read do not represent that. I want to ensure that my students can see themselves in the literacy that they read. We are requesting books whose characters reflect my students and their lives.

With all that is going on in society right now, I want to give my students pride in who they are.

Please help me in purchasing these books so that I can show them that they do matter. Allowing my young students to build their strengths now will make them even more successful in the future.

Ms. Rees Eastway Elementary School Grades PreK-2

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
One Love (Music Books for Children, African American Baby Books, Bob Marley Book for Kids) • Amazon Business $7.97 2 $15.94
Brown Boy Joy • Amazon Business $14.95 1 $14.95
I Am Enough • Amazon Business $13.28 1 $13.28
I Am Mixed (I Am Book) • Amazon Business $12.99 1 $12.99
I Am Love: A Book of Compassion (I Am Books) • Amazon Business $10.91 1 $10.91
ABC I Love Me • Amazon Business $9.99 1 $9.99
Hair Like Mine (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
Brown Boy Brown Boy What Can You Be? • Amazon Business $8.99 1 $8.99
Skin Like Mine (Kids Like Mine) • Amazon Business $8.95 1 $8.95
Get Up, Stand Up: (Preschool Music Book, Multicultural Books for Kids, Diversity Books for Toddlers, Bob Marley Children's Books) • Amazon Business $8.49 1 $8.49
I Love My Hair! • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Every Little Thing: Based on the song 'Three Little Birds' by Bob Marley (Preschool Music Books, Children Song Books, Reggae for Kids) • Amazon Business $7.61 1 $7.61
Chocolate Me! • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99
What I Like About Me! • Amazon Business $5.86 1 $5.86
We're Different, We're the Same (Sesame Street) (Pictureback(R)) • Amazon Business $4.99 1 $4.99

Materials cost

$146.82

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $11.45

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.20

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$190.47

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$33.61

Total project goal

$224.08

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $224.08

1 Donor

-$224.08

Donations toward project cost

-$190.47

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$33.61

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