Teacher asked for pencils, received 100+ boxes of donated art supplies

People from around the country are donating art supplies to this Baltimore City public school.

WMA━2 NEWS MALLORY SOFASTAIITELLS ABOUT THE TWEET THATTRIGGERED THE OUTPOURING OFSUPPORT AND VISITED THEBALTIMORE CITY SCHOOL NOWLOOKING FOR PLACES TO STOREALL OF THEIR NEW SUPPLIES.Sacha van Wagenberg, artteacher, Mount RoyalElementar━Middle School 38:06so many pencils, I think intotal probably around 5,000pencils AN UNEXPECTED GIFT FORAN ART TEACHER WHO TOLDFRIEND IN PASSING SHE COULUSE MORE PENCILS SV: 33:19 andhe reached out to some friendson Twitter I guess and nextthing I knew, I think we hadabout 80 boxes yesterday and20 more boxes of supplitoday so it's amazing THEY'DUNPACK SEVERAL BOXES ONLY TOHAVE MORE SHOW UP.

SV: 38:17colored pencils, markers,crayons THE SUPPLIES COVER THECOUNTER AND HAVE PILED UP INTHE CORNER OF THIS MOUNT ROYALELEMENTAR━ MIDDLE SCHOOL ARTROOM SV: 33:39 it's the bestgift I could ever be given formy students.

We are alwaysscavenging sometimes just forthe basics you know, which isa good thing to teach studentstoo but art is a consumableclass so we go through a loof supplies AND LIKE MANYTEACHERS..

SACHA VAN WAGENBERBOUGHT SUPPLIES WITH HER OWNMONEY..

OR RESORTED TOFUNDRAISING CAMPAIGNS..

UNTILHER ASK MADE IT TO THE TWITTERFEED OF AN ACCOUNT WITH AMASSIVE FOLLOWING.

IT'S BEENJUST 3 DAYS SINCE THE TWEET'SGONE VIRAL AND THE SCHOOL'SALREADY RECEIVED DONATIONSFROM NEW YORK, PENNSYLVANIA,MISSOURI, AND FLORIDA AND THEBOXES KEEP COMING Dawud Akbar,8th grade 43:52 it makes mefeel like our school is now aschool that people might wantto come to because they seethe things that we're doing tojust make the school a betterplace for kids and not just abad school that the city mightwant to close down DAWUD AKBARSAID ART'S BEEN A STRESSRELIEVER FOR HIM━ IT'S A WATO PUT HIS THOUGHTS ON PAPERDA: 42:20 these past 3 yearsof middle school for me havebeen something kind of up anddown because I've gone througha lot in my life:07 42:30 andwith this picture, it reallyopened up new things for mebecause I didn't know that Ihad that ability to get peopleto notice my stuff or junotice me 09 SV: 40:22 thisone says, "Hi Mount!

Enjoyyour gift" Jennifer:04 39:51These gifts come from a familyof artists in Brooklyn, NewYork.

We heard you needed somethings and support you and thegreat work you do AS THE BOXESAND MESSAGES CONTINUE TO POURIN... SV: 39:27 art suppliesfor the inspiring youngartist, excellent work: 04SACHA HAS A MESSAGE FOR ALLTHE GENEROUS DONORS WHO TOOKNOTICE OF HER SCHOOL ANDSTUDENTS SV: 37:30 oh justthank you!

They have no ideahow happy they've made mystudents and the school ingeneral to be able to giveother teachers things theyneed.

They haven't just helpedme, they have really cheereup a whole school, truly:1* IN BALTIMORE..

MALLORYSOFASTAII ..

WMAR 2 NEWS.SASHA ESTIMATES THE SUPPLIESWILL LAST THROUGHOUT THIS YEARAND PART OF NEXT YEAR SHE'SLOOKING FORWARD TO COMING UPWITH NEW PROJECTS AND SHOWINGOFF HER STUDENTS ART AT THESTATEWIDE STUDENT ARTEXHIBI