Here is the link to the new GoFundMe page, which I set up for the current school year 2018-19, for those who prefer that route.
For those who prefer to donate via PayPal, I have an account at revpaulmckay@gmail.com.
Or, if you prefer to deposit directly to my Bank of America account, which one donor does, contact me via email.
Stephanie begins school full-time Monday and is can’t wait for the new school year.
SEPTEMBER 1, 2018 UPDATE.
Greetings from San Ignacio/Santa Elena, Belize, where Stephanie Garcia will begin her second year of high school at St. Ignatius in Santa Elena.
Actually, she started back to school two weeks ago for “review classes.”
AS FOR THE $1,100 (U.S currency) goal for her second-year expenses, I’ve raised $600 — more than half!
Of that amount I spent just north of $100 shopping in Guatemala, where things are cheaper at the markets, for items like her school bag, supplies like pens and pencils and pads and such, new dress shoes to go with the uniform and other shoes and socks needed for casual or special needs like the dance troupe she’ll participate in.
I also spent $75 on three hefty new books and another $60 or so on workbooks and study guides. One of the nice things about the second year is that she has books I bought last year that she can use again this year or throughout the four years of high school.
Also, friends who are a grade ahead or two ahead of her gave her gave her books they won’t be using anymore.
As I noted before, I paid $275 out of my pocket on her tuition back July. Between that and a government grant she’ll receive and a little money held over from last year, the remaining balance for the school year is only $30 which I will pay next week.
So I’ve expended only $235 so far.
But, again, school doesn’t officially start until the coming week. And as I’ve noted, it’s the extracurricular expenses, field trips, meals, snacks and misc. costs that take big bites out of the budget — some of which I cover out of my own pocket here and there.
So I do have a monetary stake in funding her education myself.
But I couldn’t possibly put Stephanie through school without the continuing, generous donations of people like the following:
Kay Anderson, Carol Lusk Rowdoskas, Babe Watts, Cathy Gordon, Freda Marie Brown, Burke and Sarah Watson, Kevin and Marie Moran.
Also, Kevin Dietrich, Janis Beck, Sharon Miller, Cherie Nienstedt, Diane Flannery, Susan Leddy, Jered Cady, and Linda Novak.
For those who prefer to donate via PayPal, I have an account at revpaulmckay@gmail.com.
Or, if you prefer to deposit directly to my Bank of America account, which one donor does, contact me via email.
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