Donors Choose: Help Support Area Schools

DonorsChoose.org has several projects listed in the Summerville area where teachers need your help.

In the next few days, Suzanne Powell of Knightsville Elementary needs to raise $350, which she will use to create a "free" school store, using a new storage cabinet, in which donated school supplies can be given to children from low income families. She has raised $20 to the $370 goal. Click here to help.

Here are other projects in need of funding:

• Tara Stafford of Fort Dorchester Elementary. Need: $1,241. Intended use: purchase of paper to construct artist sketchbooks and portfolios to begin the 2012-2013 school year
• Virginia Fowler of Flowertown Elementary. Need: $70. Intended use: purchase of a filing system consisting of envelopes and filing cards to keep their sheet music organized
• Ariana Hudson of Knightsville Elementary. Need: $228. Intended use: purchase of folders for students' writing notebooks and phonics notebooks, and purchase of construction paper for various art activities
• Christina Barbaro of Sangaree Elementary. Need: $194. Intended use: purchase of 26 Scholastic Classroom Magazines to provide the children a window into current events
• Michelle Padgett of Summerville High. Need: $912. Intended use: purchase of five iPods for students to listen to young adult novels during silent, sustained reading time to advance their fluency and reading skills.