Disney Donates 500,000 School Provides to Florida Lecturers

Florida lecturers and college students are heading again to high school with a bit of additional pixie mud from Disney VoluntEARS! 

Walt Disney World simply wrapped up its greatest VoluntEARS occasion of the summer time: the Back-to-School Supply Drive. Over 200 solid members gathered at ESPN Wide World of Sports to rejoice one other profitable drive and type by means of the greater than 135,000 provides being donated to A Gift for Teaching.

A Gift for Teaching is a nonprofit in Central Florida that helps present free faculty provides to lecturers and college students. Disney is without doubt one of the nonprofit’s longest and largest supporters, teaming up for greater than 25 years to assist people and households in Orange, Osceola, Lake, Seminole, and Polk Counties. 

On high of the college provides donated by solid members, Disney is making an additional financial donation that equates to about 360,000 faculty provides. This joins the $500,000 donation the resort made earlier this summer time to assist fund native education schemes.

“My mother was a teacher for over 40 years, and I know how hard it was for her to get supplies for her kids,” stated Jeff Ault, Resort Concierge at Disney’s Boardwalk Resort. “Being able to support teachers when they give so much to students is great!”  

For Jeff, volunteering and supporting lecturers is a household affair. His mother continues to be an lively volunteer with A Gift for Teaching, and his dad is a former solid member who introduced Jeff alongside to VoluntEARS occasions rising up. 

“It’s just what my family did,” stated Jeff. “Now as a cast member, I get to combine my two passions during the Back-to-School Supply Drive every year!” 

The summer time at Walt Disney World was stuffed with different Disney VoluntEARS and neighborhood occasions identical to the Back-to-School Supply Drive — from shocking lecturers with park tickets to take pleasure in Cool Kid Summer, internet hosting college students at Typhoon Lagoon for The World’s Largest Swimming Lesson and extra. And with the vacations proper across the nook, additional magic is on the way in which as Disney World gears as much as rejoice the season of giving with Central Florida.