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Hands On Schools and the Home Depot transform two Atlanta schools as part of National Youth Service
ATLANTA, GA (18 April 2007) – Two Atlanta-area schools will be transformed by Hands On Schools, a two-year nationwide campaign to transform 100 school communities in 100 days. The John F. Kennedy Middle School (225 James P. Brawley Drive) and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School (545 Hill Street) will kick off a year-long investment of skilled volunteers, financial donation and community empowerment on National Youth Service Day, Saturday, April 21, at 8:30 a.m. More than 200 volunteers from The Home Depot, UPS and Hands on Atlanta’s schools-based AmeriCorps team will refurbish learning spaces, paint student-inspired murals and quotes throughout the schools, build green spaces and outdoor classrooms, refurbish the football field and gym, and other projects to transform the schools and the surrounding communities. The Kennedy School is located in Atlanta’s historic Vine City community, once home to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his family, and the Martin Luther King Jr., School is located in Atlanta’s Summerhill community. Parents, staff, neighbors and students at both schools are committed to re-establishing the schools as the heart of their communities. Hands On Schools is leading a unique wave of change in school communities across the country by engaging the local community, leveraging corporate resources, and mobilizing teams of volunteers. Through facility transformation, Hands On Schools seeks to ignite collective community investment, repositioning the school as a center of the community and ultimately fostering a legacy of service for our youngest citizens. Over the next two years, Hands On Schools, funded by a $3 million challenge grant from The Home Depot, will infuse 100 schools with the energy, compassion and determination of more than 35,000 volunteers, and deliver project toolkits to empower school revitalization in communities across the country and around the world. |
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