FREEDOM WITHIN WALLS

Through our after school feeding programs in which we purchase, prepare and distribute full, healthy meals for dinner and a healthy afternoon snack daily throughout the school year, we service over 1,000 children each day.  During the summer months, we purchase, prepare, and distribute full, healthy meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner as well as a healthy afternoon snack to over 1,500 underserved children daily throughout the entire summer. Through our feeding programs, we are assisting in providing a door of opportunity for the youth in our communities to enjoy a healthier quality of life while reducing Childhood hunger through these programs. By helping to improve children’s diets and eating habits, these programs produce healthy and revived students ready to positively impact their world and others around them.

This year, Freedom Within Walls launched its second “Freedom Enrichment Center”.  Freedom Enrichment Centers  provide free extended academic programming and enrichment during out of school time year-round to a minimum of 100 underperforming students at each location.  To provide holistic, wrap-around services, this program includes mandatory parental involvement for parents and guardians to address nonacademic barriers in the lives of disadvantaged families, thereby cultivating the home environment of each student. Students and families are provided resources andprogramming encompassing character building, development and mentoring focusing on mindfulness, creating, and implementing successful thought patterns, goal setting, intentional decision making, healthy relationships, building positive affirmations, healthy lifestyles, financial literacy, entrepreneurship and much more.