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Mr. Chau from Chicago, IL is requesting a class trip through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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South Africa 2016

My students need assistance with their airfare to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa.

  • $3,618 goal

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Mr. Chau has another project! Donate to Aquarium Club Upgrades to help his classroom.

All donations currently doubled!
You can complete this project for $232.
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My Students

Ever wanted to sit down with someone from another part of the world to share the positive and negative aspects of your respective societies and then to come home with a completely new way to look at the world? My students want to do this with a group of like-minded students from South Africa.

The students selected to travel to South Africa are a diverse, energetic, and innovative group of juniors and seniors who will be collaborating with the African Leadership Academy to propose ways for effecting change for a better future for Americans, Africans, and the world.

They come from all different economic and ethnic backgrounds and together create a delegation ideal for establishing a connection with our sister school in South Africa. Of the dozens of students who applied, these 18 juniors and seniors were selected without considering their financial contribution to the trip's fees. Many students come from families who do not travel out of the city, let alone the country. For many of the participants, this will be the first time they will be traveling by plane and with a passport.

My Project

My students need assistance with their airfare to Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa. With their collaboration with the students from the African Leadership Academy, their exposure to the political and social atmosphere in post-apartheid South Africa, and their visits to historically significant sites such as Mandela's prison, my students will return to Chicago with a new world perspective. They will continue their partnership with the ALA on service projects and will engage the rest of our student body in the same projects.

Your donation will allow students to experience a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Africa.

During that trip, they will engage with African youths their age who also have the purpose of effecting change in our global community.

Mr. Chau Walter Payton College Preparatory High School Grades 9-12

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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

18 students impacted 44donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Component Company Total
Transportation Travel for Teens $3,000.00

Trip cost

$3,000.00

Vendor shipping charges

FREE

Sales tax

$0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$45.00

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$3,075.00

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$542.65

Total project goal

$3,617.65

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

$3,617.65

37 Donors

-$2,513.51

Donations toward project cost

-$2,170.24

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$343.27

Matching donations from our partners

-$1,064.42

Match offers toward project cost

-$904.76

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$159.66

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$39.71

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$0.00

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