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