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Nov. 28, 2007
DURHAM, N.C. - Although the 2007 North Carolina Central University gridiron season is over, that did not stop members of the Eagles football team from huddling up on Wednesday (Nov. 28) to help out local youth during the upcoming holiday season. More than 20 student-athletes from the NCCU football team gathered inside the LeRoy T. Walker Complex conference room to take part in the Durham Parks and Recreation Third Annual Holiday Shoebox Campaign. The student-athletes stuffed Nike shoeboxes with toys and basic necessities, such as socks, gloves, hats, toothpaste, toothbrushes and soap, and then wrapped the boxes for delivery to children in the Durham Parks and Recreation's After School programs on Dec. 20. The items stuffed into the shoeboxes on Wednesday were donated by NCCU head football coach Mose Rison. The Shoebox Campaign began as an effort to provide a few of the basic necessities for the children in the DPR After School programs during the holiday season. DPR serves 339 children ages 5-12 and 60 teens in the After School programs. Forty percent of these children qualify for reduced fees through the Sliding Fee Scale program. Many of these families struggle all year with providing basic necessities, especially during the holidays. For information on donating to the Shoebox Campaign, contact the Durham Parks and Recreation at (919) 560-4355. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- WNCN-TV 17 (NBC) By Jennifer Turk, Reporter DURHAM, N.C.- North Carolina Central football players took some from away from the field to help make Christmas a little brighter for some Durham school children.
The players filled shoeboxes full of both necessities and goodies for the Durham Parks and Recreation After-School program.
"These shoeboxes might be the only thing these kids will open on Christmas morning," said Kim Oberly with Durham Parks and Recreation. The players filled the boxes with socks, hat and gloves, toy trucks and candy, and will hand deliver them to the kids' homes on December 20th. Oberly said an added bonus for the kids is telling them NC Central football players where the one who filled the boxes. "For the kids they get these boxes it will be a big thing that NC Central football players put these together for them," Oberly said. The Durham after-school program gives about 300 kids somewhere to go after school. Close to 40 percent of those children come from economically disadvantage neighborhoods. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To watch the video feature story by WNCN Reporter Jennifer Turk, visit NBC17.com or http://www.nbc17.com/midatlantic/ncn/news.apx.-content-articles-NCN-2007-11-28-0027.html |
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