- In El Paso, Texas, there are books for third-grade students, many of whom have none at home. Disabled students in Dayton, Ohio, will get bouncy chairs to help calm them for learning.
Science kits will go to fifth graders in Gilroy, California.
“I want to channel my confusion, frustration, and fury into hope,” Gaga said on Facebook, where she announced the donation from her Born This Way Foundation in partnership with nonprofit DonorsChoose. Back-to-back mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton a week ago left 31 dead. Three more were killed when a gunman opened fire at a food festival in Gilroy the previous weekend.
Gaga urged her Facebook followers to seek any mental health help they might need to recover. She said classroom donations would give teachers “the support they need to inspire their students to work together and bring their dreams to life.
“I am a third-grade teacher in an impoverished elementary school,” Rebeca Blanco-Grijalva said in her appeal for her classroom library on behalf of students who have no books at home. “My students are inquisitive, voracious readers who are craving to discover the newest adventure in their favorite book series.”
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