Rams are tackling Los Angeles schools' absenteeism
When kids don’t have clean clothes to wear to school, many of them don’t go. That’s what’s been discovered as a contributing issue to the Los Angeles Unified School District’s excessively high chronic student absenteeism.
The Los Angeles Rams “Geared for Greatness” program and its partnership with Pacsun and the nonprofit Think Watts Foundation are addressing this issue at its core. By providing new clothes and washers and dryers to students and schools, those absentee kids can now proudly return to school. As he selected new clothes, one young teen commented, “I feel like I’m in a dream.”
Go Rams!
You can see the uplifting video and read more about this heartwarming program here.
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Youngdannville
Nice
Bootstrap
I thought it was a brilliant idea too 😊
Slipstream
Yes, people put their heads together and came up with a brilliant plan to help get kids back in school.
youtropolis
I admire companies that participate in public-private partnerships to benefit low-income areas and their populations. It's one way for corporations to return some of the extra wealth they've amassed through trickle down economic policies that have further blighted underserved communities. In this case, the families benefit and the corporation benefits by putting tax-free profits into their non-profit charities. Everyone wins.
While we all love to see such programs uplift children and help families, I would also like to see all corporations pay their fair share of taxes to begin with and stop complaining about laws that mandate they pay a living wage. It seems that every time a chain restaurant fails in the community, local residents scream the increase in minimum is to blame, ignoring all the real contributing factors of our changing world with its changing social priorities.
Thanks for sharing this uplifting story!
Faithville
👍🏼
Slipstream
You are so right!