This event all about keeping bellies full, keeping legacies alive and keeping that greater mission of service going year after year, 39 years, this event has been going on. What does it mean to the organization to host this year after year? Oh, it’s tremendous. It’s a wonderful opportunity to bring the community together.
But more so to see the young women who have graduated and gone on to tremendous professional careers, come back and speak and share with us. And it’s also about inspiring that next generation, the scholarship aspect of this breakfast, tell us about that. Absolutely. So the breakfast is our sole uh fundraiser for
Our scholarship program and it allows typically about four students a year for an initial award and then we provide renewal scholarships to students who are still in college. We also sort of um in an informal way, mentor some of the young women as they move throughout their college experience.
Um And so it’s really a wonderful opportunity to see the fruits of our labor students that we’ve worked with from our Delta Academy, the young women that you’ll see here today, girls between the ages of eight and 18 who we help to explore stem careers and also understand the importance of career development.
Some of them have now gone on to apply for our scholarships as we celebrate the legacy of MLK Junior. How does this event fit in with that? When I think of Doctor Martin Luther King Junior, I think of excellence and achievement. The the purpose of this scholarship breakfast is to
Raise funds for young women in the Hartford area. And that funding of their college education will allow them to achieve excellence and to achieve the goals for their future. Get this organizers say in the 39 years of this breakfast, more than $400,000 in funding has been distributed to 150 scholarship recipients
Reporting in the capital city. I’m Angelo Boar, Fox. 61 Connecticut’s news station, I take this opportunity as
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