Children from the YMCA of Greater Brandywine’s afterschool program had an opportunity to meet with Jahlil Okafor and Isaiah Canaan from the Philadelphia 76ers, after they each received a $200 shopping spree at Dick’s Sporting Goods in King of Prussia as part of the store’s Shop With a Pro event.
KING OF PRUSSIA – This week the holidays were brighter for 20 local children from the YMCA of Greater Brandywine’s Believe and Achieve program at the Oscar Lasko Youth Program Center in West Chester. These lucky children enjoyed a shopping spree with 76er’s players, Jahlil Okafor and Isaiah Canaan, at Dick’s Sporting Goods in King of Prussia. Smiles could be found on everyone’s face as the delighted children shopped for family, friends and themselves. This was part of Dick’s Sporting Goods Shop with a Pro event and made possible for these children through the Believe and Achieve Foundation.
Representatives from The Believe & Achieve Foundation present a check to the YMCA of Greater Brandywine, from which 20 children in their afterschool program each received a shopping spree worth $200 at Dick’s Sporting Goods in King of Prussia as part of the store’s Shop with a Pro event.
Believe and Achieve focuses on improving the lives and futures of children in need by providing safe, supervised quality care for ages 5 to 15. Believe and Achieve provides free after school care, five days a week, and a daily afternoon camp program during the summer for $10 per week. Believe and Achieve also provides a free, safe and fun full-day program on days off from school. Believe and Achieve is led by YMCA staff and community volunteers and provides kids with mentoring, tutoring, homework help, healthy fun and games, gym sports and swimming at the YMCA.
For more information visit: http://www.ymcagbw.org/youth-programs/believe-and-achieve
