I need some urgent help – $500 worth of help –  from the Army Of Good to get Kathy Sosa’s public school class of 30 immigrant and refugee children on their trip to the Franklin  Delano Roosevelt home and library and Hyde Park, N.Y., on June 10.

Kathy, the very dedicated, underpaid and grossly overworked public school teacher who helped Eh K Pru Shee Way apply to the Albany Academy, has been trying for months to get her class – she has 30 student – to the FDR home and museum. I could not recount all of the obstacles she has faced, but Kathy is not a quitter.

Last year, Kathy’s class was not able to attend the annual 8th grade field trip because they couldn’t afford the $60. This year, she wants to get them on the trip to the FDR site for many reasons, one being that it “fits in beautifully with the 8th grade social studies curriculum because we study FDR and World War II.”

Public school trips are not simple affairs. They require multiple approvals and funding that usually does not exist.

Kathy is an ESL (English as Second Language teacher) – , she believes it is critical that they see American history beyond the ugly conflict raging about immigration.

Every one of her students has been taunted, worried, insulted, or made to feel uncomfortable about being a refugee or immigrant in America right now. This trip would be a dose of the real America.

Kathy and I have been talking about this trip for weeks and I offered to help her go, we thought the  trip would be fairly inexpensive, but the school has no funds for trips and the school bus we hoped could transport the kids is only available between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

She just learned this morning. I’m not a quitter either, so I intend to make this happen. The kids have been excited about this for weeks.

The cheapest charter bus available will cost $1,100. I messaged Kathleen, one of the Army Of Good’s most generous donors, and she said she would put up $800. I said I would ask for help getting the other $500 and will start by adding $250 of my own money.

This is a worthy cause. You can help here.

These kids are eager to acclimate to America and are grateful to be here. Some of them have experienced unimaginable suffering and loss, including their parents and siblings.

Kathy fights for them and their families every day in every way she can.

She is going to be working with me to choose and assist her gifted students in my program to get one or two of them into good private schools each year. I would also like to focus some of our do-good efforts on her students, some of whom urgently need small acts of great kindness.

Unlike some of the refugee groups I have tried to work with, Kathy and these kids are open and transparent. They are eager and willing to let me talk to them and show you who they are.

I am already meeting with some of their families.

This will be an exciting and bounded way to help refugee kids directly in small ways – backpacks, school books, lunch fees, some clothes.

But one thing at a time.

If you can help, please send a contribution – any amount will help – to me via Paypal, [email protected], or by check, Jon Katz. FDR trip, P.O. Box 205, Cambridge, N.Y., 12816. Please mark any donations “FDR” trip.

If there is any overage, I will apply it to the refugee fund to help Kathy’s class over the coming years.

And thanks. It feels good to do good. (I hope to get them money for donuts and muffins on the way down.)