The old playground equipment at Ben Milam Elementary School in Dallas, built and installed decades before the institution of current standards of safety and handicap accessibility, has recently been condemned and slated for removal. Most of our students live in apartments and enjoy little or no outdoor play at home. They deserve a safe place to play at school. We are turning to you, our community Neighbors, to help plan, design and build a new playground for the children of your neighborhood elementary school. We need shade trees, swings, see-saws and climbing equipment, and our goal is to have a new playground in place for our 100th anniversary.

Neither the Bond Program nor the DISD budget includes provisions to replace our playgrounds. This project must be fully funded by donations. The Ben Milam PTA has worked hard to improve our school grounds and to raise funds to build a new playground for our students. Parent and community Volunteers have adorned our campus with new flowerbeds and bountiful planters flanking the front entrances. PTA Parents sell nachos and fruit cups on Fridays and wash cars on Saturdays, and the pennies add up each year to a few hundred dollars. But in a school of only 300 students, most of them designated at-risk economically, it is unrealistic to hope that the Ben Milam family alone can generate the thousands of dollars needed to give our children a safe place to play.

The donations will be greatly appreciated. Please contribute what you can and designate Administration Fund - Ben Milam Playground by mailing your donation today.

For more information: Ben Milam Playground Project.

The Solution Beacon Foundation is a fully IRS accredited 503 non-profit organization. Your contributions are tax-deductible.

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