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Mrs. McCarron from Anchorage, AK is requesting supplies through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Souper Soup Project In Anchorage Alaska

My students need disposable soup bowls and spoons for serving hot soup meals at our school once a week.

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My Students

Kids have to be healthy to learn, and they have to learn how to be healthy. Healthy kids make better students. Better students make healthy communities. William-Potts Datema, Harvard Public Health Our school does not have a cafeteria. We would like help providing a weekly hot meal for our students.

The students who attend our school are multicultural from all socio-economic backgrounds.

The district is composed of 52% minorities with one of the top 10 homeless populations in the nation. Over 30% of the students have a weight problem. Our school is a secondary alternative public school in a downtown area with no cafeteria and limited local resources for obtaining healthy food for lunch. Last year the Parents Group began supplying a hot soup lunch on Fridays to all our students.

My Project

We need disposable bowls and spoons to continue to keep our Friday soup project operational for our 280 students. Less than $400 in supplies can provide the funds for bowls and spoons necessary to serve our hot soup meals for several weeks. Many of our students have never had the opportunity to work with adults in a kitchen or learn about food preparation. Most know very little about healthy eating. We want to provide education about healthy eating, show students what it looks like, allow them to prepare the meals and then to experience healthy eating firsthand. What their peers do influences adolescent behavior. Keeping students positively engaged in productive activities with their peers and in the company of healthy adult parent role models is one of the best ways we can serve, not only our school and community, but the nation as well. The materials to maintain our soup project will do far more than ward off hunger pains for a day.

If the Parents Group does not have assistance with the monetary cost of this project it will have to be terminated.

This is a hands-on learning experience that most students would not have in any other school environment or anywhere else in our city. Several students have already expressed an interest in the culinary arts as a result of this project.

Mrs. McCarron Steller Secondary School Grades 9-12

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Anchorage, AK View local requests

More than a third 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

280 students impacted 12donors

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Impact Plastic Bowls 6oz., 5 Pack • Quill $69.99 5 $349.95
Berkley Square Bulk Cutlery Soup Spoons, White, 1,000/Case • Quill $15.99 3 $47.97

Materials cost

$397.92

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $5.97

3rd party payment processing fee

$5.97

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$439.86

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$77.62

Total project goal

$517.48

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $517.48

8 Donors

-$312.48

Donations toward project cost

-$265.61

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.87

match offer

-$205.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$174.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$30.75

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 $0.00

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