Texas Border Business
Mission, Texas- The idea came to the duo of Emma Zamora and Jaelin Lopez last spring during their junior year at Veterans Memorial High School (VMHS). With the return of in-person instruction and the start of the senior year this year, the team has worked their idea into a community service project for their DECA organization.
Zamora and Lopez discovered that children in unfortunate situations to include foster care and safe homes often struggle in school and getting the materials they need to be successful in school. To help meet that need, the two started Learning for the American Dream. They have been raising awareness of the issue amongst their campus and elsewhere, while also raising money to buy books and school supplies for children.
To date, their efforts have resulted in a donation of over 200 books and school supplies to the Children’s Advocacy Center in Mission. They are continuing their fundraising efforts with the hopes of making a large school supply purchase in January. They created a GoFundMe page to make the collection of donations easier, and also a webpage to learn more about their project and the resulting donations of books and school supplies. You can find the Learning for the American Dream webpage here. Donations can be made in support of their efforts through their GoFundMe page, https://gofund.me/3a509876.
