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Mrs. Baldauf from Bay Point, CA is requesting classroom basics through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Title 1 School Drawing Portraits & Connecting with African Orphans!

Help me give my students the opportunity to draw orphans in Sierra Leone with The Memory Project and connect with students in Africa through their art.

  • $329 goal

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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

Our Title I school serves free breakfast for 85% of the students, and they get to the school early to eat the breakfast that they don’t get at home. My students eat their breakfast at school each morning before they come to my class. Fuel in their bodies makes them ready to learn and start the day. We are a uniform school. Some kids have uniforms that fit and are clean, and others have uniforms that are too big, too small, and don't really look clean. The majority of kids are happy, energetic, and ready to learn, but some students have trouble staying awake and staying focused. They come every day from group homes, and some are homeless or being raised by grandparents.

My students are 11, 12, 13, and 14-year-old boys and girls who are growing, trying, creating, experiencing, experimenting, challenging, and ultimately becoming educated with art in my classroom.

My classes are all year long, so I can work with these students in-depth with technology, get to know their strengths and weaknesses, likes and dislikes, and see their creativity develop as their experience with art increases and grows.

My Project

Students at this Title I school with this DonorsChoose grant will have the chance this year to draw portraits for orphans in Sierra Leone now experiencing the pandemic. Working with The Memory Project students will each get a photograph of an orphan in Sierra Leone and will then draw the orphan either by hand or using a digital platform. After the drawing are delivered to the orphans, the Memory Project makes a video of the delivery of my students drawings being given to the child in Sierra Leone and they will see the orphans receiving their drawings of them. We have done this important project for 8 years and students learn about a different country (this year Sierra Leone) and how the orphans live.

Students make a connection with their art, they learn how to draw portraits, and it empowers them giving something they created to someone less fortunate in another country with The Memory Project.

Mrs. Baldauf Riverview Middle School Grades 6-8

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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Bay Point, CA View local requests

More than three‑quarters 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
Sierra Leone orphan portrait $15.00 15 $225.00

Materials cost

$225.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $20.59

3rd party payment processing fee

$3.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$278.97

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$49.23

Total project goal

$328.20

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $328.20

6 Donors

-$284.15

Donations toward project cost

-$257.72

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$26.43

match offer

-$25.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$21.25

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$3.75

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$19.05

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 $0.00

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