July 22nd 2023 Back to School at the HUB!
We would like to acknowledge the generosity and hard work of our partners that made the Back to School Event on July 22nd SUCH A SUCCESS!
BY THE NUMBERS
100 vision screenings (Prevent Blindness of Georgia)
150 Stuffed Book bags to students at Fort Gordon
930 Stuffed Book bags to the visitors at the HUB
2000 books given away - Thanks to Toys for Tots Literacy Program!
1000 HOT DOGS!!??! (Thank You Elks Club!)
MEET THE TEAM
AT&T, T-Mobile, Prevent Blindness Georgia , Queensborough National Bank, Regions Bank, Brown Beauty Magic, the Elks Club, F & M Bank, Plant Vogtle, Richmond County School System, RESA, BASICS Richmond County, and all of the other HUB partners Augusta Locally Grown, Harrisburg Family Health Care, the Augusta University Literacy Center, and Boys and Girls Club of the CSRA!
Princesses (of Brown Beauty Magic) Danced, Sang, Face Painted, and Led children through yoga poses!
Our Awesome EmCee Blake Chambers, from Cyber City Solutions who also provided the sound system for the event!
Special thanks to volunteer Rodney Prince for organizing the ELKS Club to cook and serve, who even finished up by washing dishes!
Great speakers at the event included Lindsey Heritage from CSRA RESA, Golden Blocks Legends Comic Books, Kyndra Allsup and the Augusta Junior Players, Dr. April Hartman & Team (regarding Mental Health Resources), and Marquice Williams, Poet.
SHOUT OUT TO T-Mobile!
Thank you to T-Mobile for providing so many school supplies including backpacks- you made this event HAPPEN! We could not have done this without you!
It took three over-stuffed trucks to get the supplies to the HUB!
The generous people at T-Mobile even helped stuff the backpacks for us. We are so grateful to you!
HONORABLE MENTION - AT&T
AT&T donated 450 custom backpacks already stuffed with goodies included for the Back to School at the HUB event! (AT&T saved the day!)
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MESSAGE
A message about the July 22nd Back to School Event from RISE Augusta Executive Director, Laurie Cook:
“Thank you to all the amazing volunteers working behind the scenes – AU Literacy, RISE Augusta board members, Cindy Youngblood, Debby Kalliokoski, and Amanda Fields for organizing and stuffing all of those bookbags with paper, pencils, folders, notebooks, glue sticks, journals, markers, and so much more!
The day of the event there were so many people helping – thank you Augusta National, T-Mobile, AT & T, Richmond County School System, Augusta University, and so many others.
It was such a huge effort but made possible by so many helping hands! We are so grateful! Just think of all the young people that were helped by the outpouring of generosity of time, effort and resource!”