Back to school! Pencils, pens, notebooks, lunchboxes, and at 2 – 3 new outfits from JC Penny! If you have the money, that is — and a lot of people don’t.
My friend, Ren, teaches school in a very low-income part of NYC:
“My students come to school unprepared — how are they ever to succeed without the basic supplies to supplement the basic skills? I work in a very impoverished area of New York. We are a “barrier free” school. This means that we open our doors to all children, regardless of their physical limitations. Children with physical handicaps make up a large part of my school’s population.… Our school is 95% free lunch. If parents can’t buy their children lunch, then you can bet school supplies comes after that. I have students who don’t even come to school with pencils. I have spent hundreds of dollars trying to provide what my student’s parents should have, but haven’t been able to.”
I don’t ask much from you monsters, but I’m asking this: please donate to Ren’s fund through DonorsChoose.org. She needs money to buy the most basic school supplies for her students — things like pencils, paper, markers, and tape. If enough people do, they will get an additional $100,000 of funding. And you’ll be making someone’s dream come true. You! Regular old you! Think of that — you with your dirty dishes and ratty socks could be a wish granter!
I’m doing it. You are a good person, and I hope you’ll go and give an improv session at your friend’s school.
I like charity this is a great idea to post things like this.
You’re killin’ me, Eliza. I was really intent on being a shitty person today, and you had to go post about sweet, needy children and ruin it. Thanks for nothing.
gEE ANNE, GLAD YOU ARE SO NEGATIVE AND INAPPROPRIATE. THIS SITE IS FOR GREAT THINGS. CHARITY IS AN AWESOME CAUSE AND HELPS SO MANY PEOPLE.
Yeah, Anne. See, Kathy gets it.