Dayana Nogareda Fiol Foundation

The family of Dayana Nogareda has established the DAYANA NOGAREDA-FIOL FOUNDATION to carry on Dayana's legacy. Education was Dayana's ticket to success. As a seven-year-old child, Dayana left Cuba on a raft, arriving in the United States in 1994. Developing into a caring, generous young woman and excelling at school while learning her second language on the fly, Dayana earned a reputation as a dynamic, extraordinarily effective, and unyielding defender of the accused and of the United States Constitution. None of these accomplishments would have been possible without an education, and an education would not have been possible without adequate school supplies in her developing years.Dayana found news stories of young boys and girls showing up at school without a notebook or pencil appalling, as she did stories of teachers, already underpaid, going into their own pocket to buy supplies for poor students. Dayana wanted to do something about this and vowed she would. This vow is one of the bases of the DAYANA NOGAREDA-FIOL FOUNDATION. While the foundation will have many missions, buying school supplies for children whose parents cannot afford them will be the first. The need for this campaign is dire; per a recent report , an estimated 15 million children in the United States have inadequate school supplies. Those paying their respects instead should donate to the Dayana Nogareda Fiol foundation via this Go Fund Me campaign. 100 percent of donations will be used to purchase school and educational material in the United States and will be given to the children in need in the United States.