Teacher Raises Money For Classroom Hand Washing Sink

Girl wearing mask in school washing her hands

As Annette Fernandez started looking around her third grade classroom and realized it wasn’t close to a bathroom for hand washing, she decided to do something about it. She teaches in a portable classroom that’s detached from the main building at Turie T. Small Elementary school in Daytona Beach, Florida, and there’s no sink or hand-washing station, but that’s about to change.

Fernandez asked her principal if there was money available for hand-washing stations and there wasn’t, so with her principal’s blessing, she started a GoFundMe campaign to raise some. Within two hours, she had more than the $15-hundred she needed to get a sink in her classroom. The money will also supply soap, paper towels, hand sanitizer and cleaning wipes and she’s using excess money to buy another hand-washing station for another classroom.

“Hand washing is such a basic necessity ... and it’s the number one thing to prevent the spread of COVID,” Fernandez explains. “The most important thing is that these kids get what they need.”

Source: Today


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