May 5, 2010
Dear Naomi,
I am writing to you on behalf of the 2nd grade teachers at Fifth Ward Elementary to thank you for your generous donation to aid our field trips this year. With the funds that you provided, we were able to take 50 students and parent chaperones to the Audubon Aquarium in New Orleans. This experience was incredibly valuable to our students’ education and was a great chance for them to learn some new things.
As you may know our students are mainly from low-income backgrounds and do not often have the opportunity to travel throughout the state and to get to learn through experience. The generous donation from The Good People Fund has enabled our students to travel to New Orleans and learn about our life science curriculum and lessons first-hand. The students had a lot of fun and learned so much during this trip!
I have included some photos from our trip that I hope you will enjoy.
Sincerely yours,
Samantha Lakin
Special Education Teacher, 2nd Grade
Fifth Ward Elementary
We just received this note from our friend Samantha Lakin who is completing her second year of work for Teach for America. Over the past year Sam has shared some very poignant stories about the children in her class as well as the difficulties she and other teachers encounter as they try to broaden their students’ life experiences with very minimal available resources. Sam has confirmed through both words and pictures that our small tzedakah investment paid off big returns to those kids who experienced the wonders of the aquarium.
