LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The new Boys and Girls Club in Lima received a donation to help jump-start some of their programs.
The American Caritas Foundation out of Columbus, Ohio, donated $50,000 in a grant to the Boys and Girls Club at Bradfield Community Center.
The American Caritas Foundation out of Columbus, Ohio, donated $50,000 in a grant to the Boys and Girls Club at Bradfield Community Center. The money will be used for programming and providing a safe space for area youth.
The Bradfield site of the Boys and Girls Club of America opened up back in July of this year.
"This will give us the opportunity for recruitment to get more kids in. With the state of the country, things that are going on, we just want to make sure that our young people have somewhere they can go that their parents feel that they're safe and those kids are safe. And also that we're giving them good mentorship, that we're teaching them to become productive citizens and young people also," said Chris Jackson, executive director of the Bradfield Center.
The money will be used for programming and providing a safe space for area youth.
"Because that we know you are starting a boys and girls club to help kids in a very high-need, underserved community. We wrote the grant, and fortunately, we were awarded the grant," said Joe Jordan, CEO of the Boys and Girls Club of NE Indiana.
The Bradfield site of the Boys and Girls Club of America opened up back in July of this year. For more information on the Boys and Girls Club at the Bradfield Community Center, check out our Noon Edition Interview:
The Boys and Girls Club at the Bradfield Community Center is looking to recruit kids and volunteers. We got the details!
