PHOENIX (AZFamily) -- After Aveson Charter School in Altadena, California, was destroyed in the Eaton Fire, a Phoenix charter school is stepping up to "adopt" the students and staff from the school that burned to the ground.
Just a couple of weeks ago, there were no known connections between the two schools.
Still, third-grade teacher Lisa Somers saw the devastation from the Los Angeles wildfires and posted on social media asking if anyone knew of a school that was impacted.
"When I saw the school and what had happened to the school, my heart felt for those kids," said Somers.
Somers and her students at Freedom Academy in Phoenix started talking about the fires and their impact. That's when Somers said the students came up with the idea of trying to collect school supplies to send to Aveson Charter School.
"They came up with the idea. They were the ones that motivated me to email [Aveson's Executive Director]," said Somers.
After getting approval from administrators, Somers and her class started to plan on collecting school supplies, money, and more for Aveson. All of the kids in the class are also writing letters of support for the students in California.
"Just a sense of pride that our small school is, like I said, going to make a difference," said Freedom Academy Principal Julie Downing.
Freedom Academy will start collecting donations on Tuesday.
School supplies can be dropped off at the school near 40th Street and Bell Road too. On Tuesday, the school will activate a GoFundMe and an Amazon wish list.
After a few weeks, Somers plans to drive whatever donations they get down to the Los Angeles area to deliver them to Aveson Charter School.
"For them, for the students, they said clothing and blankets, letters of support, and that all wonderful. That's where you find moments of light," said Aveson Charter School Executive Director Ian McFeat in an interview with CBS News in Los Angeles earlier this week.
"When they get their new building, and they move to a new building we want them to have a fresh start so they can feel happy, so they can feel motivated to learn and not just the devastation that happened," added Somers.