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Dressing For Success! Uniforms For Refugee Students

My students need school uniform shirts for the new school year.

  • $276 goal

Hooray! This project is fully funded

Hooray! This project is fully funded

My Students

Do you remember the pressures of wearing the "right" clothing to school? My district is attempting to minimize those pressures by utilizing school uniforms (navy blue polo shirt and navy blue pants.)

My students are, almost, all refugees from countries like Burma (Myanmar), Somalia, Nepal, Thailand, and African countries.

They often arrive in the US with little more than the clothes on their backs. Grateful to have any clothing items, and unaware of American culture, they often come to school wearing clothing that doesn't follow American cultural norms. Boys will come in wearing pink and purple, simply happy to have items that fit appropriately.

My Project

Our school district has implemented a simple uniform policy of navy blue shirts (screen printed with our school logo) and navy blue pants. While this policy helps minimize the stigma of going against cultural norms, it also presents a financial burden that many of our families are unable to shoulder. My team provides students with shoes, pants, and uniform shirts when we can but there are never enough to go around and all items that we provide have been donated or purchased with our own funds. Your donation will allow us to provide uniforms for students at no charge. This donation will allow us to use our personal funds to buy more shoes, winter coats and other necessities for families that need them. I am requesting 30 navy polo shirts.

More often than not, my students arrive in the US without any formal education.

They are often unaccustomed to the concept of school, don't speak the language, and are intimidated by a system that they don't understand. The simple act of providing a uniform helps these students begin to feel that they belong. We will be giving them a sense of community, helping to break down the barriers that their language and lack of experience put in place.

Mrs. L.
Grades 3-5

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Where Your Donation Goes

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Youth Navy Polo • Front Row Outfitters $5.50 30 $165.00

Materials cost

$165.00

Vendor shipping charges

 $16.80

Sales tax

 $15.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$2.48

Fulfillment labor & materials

$35.00

Total project cost

$234.28

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$41.34

Total project goal

$275.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $275.62

10 Donors

-$200.48

Donations toward project cost

-$170.42

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.06

Matching donations from our partners

-$75.14

Match offers toward project cost

-$63.87

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$11.27

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