These students, who are poor by our standards, have a "sister school" in Mexico and are helping students much poorer than they are. DP
By STELLA M. CHÁVEZ / The Dallas Morning News
dallasnews.com: Some Sam Rayburn Elementary parents have a hard time paying the rent in Grand Prairie. Others can't afford the school uniform.
But students there are learning that poverty is relative.
The children – some of them immigrants and children of immigrants – have taken on a mission to help students less fortunate than themselves.
Their new "sister school" consists of three classrooms in Ciudad Serdán, Mexico, a town in a mountainous region east of Puebla. At the Jose María Morelos y Pavón school, students have only an outhouse for a bathroom. Two grades share each classroom, and computers are nonexistent.
Sam Rayburn student Maida Chávez, 9, recently wrote in longhand to her new friends in Mexico, "I know you are poor and I want to help you."
The students also are collecting school supplies and clothing for the kids in Ciudad Serdán.
Carlos De La Cruz, Sam Rayburn's principal, conceived the project after visiting Ciudad Serdán with a former school district employee, Glenn Jenson. They visited an orphanage and learned that many of the students at the small school, considered the poorest in the city, lived there.
So, they decided to help in a way that would teach the Rayburn children a valuable lesson about kindness.
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