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Help Us Bring Life Into Our Playground!

My students need two raised garden kits and two active world trays.

  • $412 goal

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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

Please help me bring life into our playground. Our play area is a dry, boring, and lifeless slab of concrete. There is one play structure that serves 30 TK, 60 Kindergarten students, and 15 third graders (who use our playground for extra curricular activities).

I teach in an inner city school in Los Angeles.

For most of our Title I and low socioeconomic students, gardening and outdoor play is non existent. With budget cuts deeply affecting our instructional materials and class size increasing to 30, these students will face a harsh school year. Equipment that is required to develop their gross and fine motor skills is virtually nonexistent, due to insufficient funds.

My Project

Many of our students live in apartments, where opportunities to spend time in the great outdoors (much less work in a garden) are few and far between. The garden at our school will give our students the chance to learn extremely important lessons through hard work, patient observation, and hands-on activities. I have requested two raised garden kits and two active world tray vegetables so my students can plant and tend to a large vegetable garden and work toward a project goal.

By contributing to this project, you and Disney Planet Challenge will bring students an experience they might never have outside of school.

You will help our students see a life outside of video games and TV: a world where they can grow, learn, and create. These resources will help students at our school for years to come as they learn the beauty and magic of bringing a garden to life!

Mrs. LANUZA Ralph Bunche Elementary 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.

More about Mrs. LANUZA

Carson, CA 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

105 students impacted 11donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Raised Garden Kit • Kaplan Early Learning Company $93.46 2 $186.92
Active World Tray • Kaplan Early Learning Company $50.96 2 $101.92

Materials cost

$288.84

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $26.43

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.33

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$349.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$61.69

Total project goal

$411.29

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $411.29

7 Donors

-$205.64

Donations toward project cost

-$174.80

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.84

match offer

-$205.65

Match offer toward project cost

-$174.80

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.85

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 $0.00

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