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Dr. Verma from Brooklyn, NY is requesting materials related to food, clothing & hygiene through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Don't Ever Have to Plead the Fifth: Feed the Fifth!

My students need breakfast snacks, so that they can be fully immersed in their learning and personally set the bar high each and every day!

  • $544 goal

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Dr. Verma has another project! Donate to Help Us Thrive with Supplies to help their classroom.

$285 - complete this project and be a hero

My Students

My students are fantastic, wonderful, amazing, and pleasant fifth graders, and are in their final year of Elementary School! Very soon, they will be off to middle school where they will continue to do wonderful and amazing things in their academic and personal lives!

Despite my students’ strong and sincere zeal for learning, they are daily victims of systemic challenges pertaining to finance, race, and other extraneous variables.

Brownsville, Brooklyn is one of the most economically devastated towns in New York, with 40% of its citizens living below the poverty line (an income of about $20,000 a year for a family of four). Over 75% of my students live in poverty. As a result, my school is a Title I School (according to the United States Department of Education) because of "high numbers or high percentages of children from low-income families." In essence, my students’ unique and highly intelligent minds are not being adequately or equitably educated or bettered due to bureaucratic reasons beyond their or their teachers’ control.

My Project

As cliche as it may sounds: "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" without a doubt! It inhibits a tiresome morning from meddling with our day's tasks. We must eat some type of breakfast, which is essential to starting the day off productively and with vigor.

There are significant educational challenges associated with students being unable to eat breakfast and thus being unable to thrive in a learning environment.

Due to societal stigmas, my students are presented with daily challenges outside of school. Nonetheless, in school, over 85% of students receive free lunch, and many receive lunch at a reduced fee.

I like to think of my classroom as a "safe space" for my students to feel comfortable, validated, happy, and most importantly, educated daily. However, that cannot always happen due to the difficulties they face outside of school (including in terms of nutrition), which is beyond their control.

In sum, nobody deserves to sit in hunger for numerous hours, especially young children whose jobs are to simply garner as much knowledge as they possibly can. Therefore, funding for this project will permit my students to be 'fully' engaged, after being able to consume a modest amount of breakfast!

Dr. Verma PS 446 Riverdale Ave Community School Grades 3-5

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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Brooklyn, NY View local requests

More than half of 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
Breakfast Variety Snack Box, 41/Bx • Quill.com $33.99 10 $339.90
Quaker Chewy Granola Bar Variety Pack 60 Count (220-00434) • Quill.com $17.84 3 $53.52
Nature Valley Oats 'n Honey Granola Bars, 49 Count (220-00457) • Quill.com $16.14 2 $32.28

Materials cost

$425.70

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$6.39

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$462.09

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$81.55

Total project goal

$543.64

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $543.64

3 Donors

-$263.00

Donations toward project cost

-$238.55

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$24.45

match offer

-$262.99

Match offer toward project cost

-$223.54

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$39.45

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$17.65

Still needed View calculationHide calculation

 $0.00

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