South Grade Elementary Safety Patrols - Trip to Washington, D.C. - Plea for Donations

Dear Community Leaders,

Last spring, you may have received a letter asking for support of our Safety Patrols here at South Grade Elementary in Lake Worth, FL. 

I am writing again now that the school year has started and our safety patrols have gotten their belts and are hard at work to ask for your help.

Most of our students are economically disadvantaged, and simply cannot afford to pay to participate in the biggest field trip in the world (it's in the Guinness Book of World Records!) Our safety patrols are our best and most hard working students, and it broke my heart to tell them and their parents that I need $800 from each of them before November in order to participate.

This is an opportunity of a lifetime for my students. Most of my students live within 5 minutes of the beach, and many have never seen the ocean.... imagine what a trip to Washington DC would be like for them! This year I have a girl who lives in fear that her father will be let out of jail to try and kill her mother again. I have a student who's father just passed away two weeks ago whose family cannot afford to send her to Washington because they had to pay for her father's funeral in Guatemala. I have many students who go home every day to care for younger brothers and sisters while their parents work multiple minimum wage jobs picking fruit or cleaning houses. 

And these are just some of their stories. These students deserve to go to Washington and experience our nation's history, government, and political process first hand. 

Will you please consider sponsoring one child or donating whatever you are able to give a deserving child the opportunity to travel, learn, and experience things they've never dreamed of?

Please send any donations to:

South Grade Safety Patrols
C/O Erin Consuegra
716 S. "K" St. 
Lake Worth, FL 33460

Checks may be made payable to: South Grade Safety Patrols

Thank you in advance for your support!

Erin Consuegra
5th Grade Dual Language
South Grade Elementary