According to wtop.com, "Anyone who donates $10 or more will be mailed a bar of handmade soap and a personalized thank-you letter. Students made the soaps at home, all at once, while connected remotely as a class. Kelly said his students have gone beyond his soap-making expectations, using molds to create fun shapes and adding scents from essential oils. One student, however, may have crossed a scented line."
As per wtop.com, "The class hopes to raise $15,000. When the drive ends, all the money collected will be distributed equally to the affected student families. “What’s amazing about it is, to me, I feel like they’re learning how to put others in front of themselves. Which in eighth grade, it’s all about me,” said Kelly. “I’ve just never seen so much effort by eighth-grade students."
A Fairfax County, Virginia, teacher found out that almost a quarter of his students had a parent who lost a job because of the pandemic, he decided to do something about it. He and his class launched a unique project to help them. David Kelly and his eighth-grade science students at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke started a GoFundMe drive called Soap For Hope. Kelly said, “We’re using our chemistry skills that they’ve learned to make soap”.
According to wtop.com, "Anyone who donates $10 or more will be mailed a bar of handmade soap and a personalized thank-you letter. Students made the soaps at home, all at once, while connected remotely as a class. Kelly said his students have gone beyond his soap-making expectations, using molds to create fun shapes and adding scents from essential oils. One student, however, may have crossed a scented line."
As per wtop.com, "The class hopes to raise $15,000. When the drive ends, all the money collected will be distributed equally to the affected student families. “What’s amazing about it is, to me, I feel like they’re learning how to put others in front of themselves. Which in eighth grade, it’s all about me,” said Kelly. “I’ve just never seen so much effort by eighth-grade students."
According to wtop.com, "Anyone who donates $10 or more will be mailed a bar of handmade soap and a personalized thank-you letter. Students made the soaps at home, all at once, while connected remotely as a class. Kelly said his students have gone beyond his soap-making expectations, using molds to create fun shapes and adding scents from essential oils. One student, however, may have crossed a scented line."
As per wtop.com, "The class hopes to raise $15,000. When the drive ends, all the money collected will be distributed equally to the affected student families. “What’s amazing about it is, to me, I feel like they’re learning how to put others in front of themselves. Which in eighth grade, it’s all about me,” said Kelly. “I’ve just never seen so much effort by eighth-grade students."
