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Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® Donates More
Than 900 Backpacks to Trotwood City Schools
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® members
from the Great Lakes Region have rallied to help
make sure school children near Dayton, Ohio have what
they need for the upcoming school year after many of
them lost everything during tornadoes in May.
Sorority members from five states in the Great Lakes
Region donated more than 900 backpacks filled with school
supplies and other needed items to students in the
Trotwood-Madison City School District. It was part of the
Great Lakes Region’s first ever "Make a Difference Day…After
the Storm" held on Sunday, July 28.
The Trotwood, Ohio area saw heavy destruction when
multiple tornadoes ripped through the area. The sorority’s
donation was in response to a backpacks and school supplies
donation drive by Dayton radio station 92.1 FM WROU.
All items were delivered to the Trotwood Fire
Department’s Firehouse #72. More than 50 Alpha Kappa
Alpha members from around Ohio, Michigan and other
states went to the firehouse to unload and drop
off backpacks. In addition, a
Miami Valley Regional Transit Authority bus transported large
boxes of pre-ordered, pre-filled backpacks to the
firehouse.
Alpha Kappa Alpha Great
Lakes Regional Director Carrie J. Clark said, “We’re here to
make a difference and we’re doing it by being on the ground,
working hard and by giving back.”
“Our Sorority is founded
on service, giving back, and service to all mankind. So,
this is what we do. This is our mantra. This is who we are,”
Clark said. “So to be able to be a part of something that is
bigger than all of us, to be able to help those young kids
in the middle schools who are in need of school supplies,
it’s touching.”
The Great Lakes Region of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® is
comprised of Ohio, Michigan, Western New York, Western
Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Each of the Dayton-area graduate chapters: Rho Omega in
Wilberforce, Beta Eta Omega in Dayton and Tau Lambda
Omega in Trotwood had members directly impacted by the
storm. The sorority and Great Lakes Region also donated over
$10,000 to families in need.
Faith Daniels, Program
Director for 92.1 WROU, said, the backpack donation “is the
most incredible outpouring of love for the city of Trotwood
and the children of Trotwood and the Greater Dayton area.’”
She said she was grateful to Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
because the Sorority “came through in a way that I had asked
God to do because the donations were looking a little slim.”
Daniels added, “They came to my rescue and they came to the
rescue of the kids in this community and they have done a
fantastic job.”
Daniels said with the
donation, every Trotwood student will receive a backpack
with supplies. Trotwood students started school on Monday,
Aug. 12. Trotwood Mayor Mary A. McDonald, who was at the
firehouse to help receive the donations, said, “On behalf of
the city of Trotwood, I thank every AKA.”
About Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated®: (AKA)
is an international service organization that was founded on
the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. in 1908.
It is the oldest Greek-letter organization established by
African-American college-educated women. Alpha Kappa Alpha
is comprised of nearly 300,000 members in more than 1,000
graduate and undergraduate chapters in the United States,
the U.S. Virgin Islands, Liberia, Bahamas, Bermuda, the
Caribbean, Canada, Japan, Germany, South Korea, South Africa
and in the Middle East. Led by International President
Glenda Glover PhD, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated® is
often hailed as “America’s
premier Greek-letter organization for African American women.”
The Great Lakes Region of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.® is
comprised of more than 5,000 members in Ohio, Michigan,
Western New York, Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
For more information about Alpha
Kappa Alpha Sorority,
Inc.® and its programs, visit www.aka1908.com. |
