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WEST COLUMBIA – One of our MLKCC Community Grant recipients, Communities in Schools (CIS), recently sponsored a mentoring event at West Columbia Elementary.  The Columbia High School “Stand By Peace” CIS mentors worked with their younger peers to create posters and develop activities focusing on drug-free living. The students are using drug-free posters and activities purchased through your grant, because of you have helped make our program stronger! – Sheila Newton, CIS Site Coordinator Thank you Columbia High School CIS for showing Love in Action and Changing Lives!!! [easingslider id=”2573″]Read More →

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ANGLETON- The Martin Luther King Celebration Committee  recently awarded nine (9) grants to local community and non- profit  organizations. –GMZ Education and Development Center– “Einstein the Mind” project will introduce STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) to elementary school age Dream camp Students and address STEM Gaps for intermediate level students by providing a hands on experience with STEM Kits. –Brazosport  Area Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority , Incorporated A Girls Secret Service Project will allow Fifth and Sixth Grade economically disadvantaged girls to recoup their loss of instructional time, gain skills reading, writing, math and science and build the characteristics of anRead More →

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Chromebooks Giveaway Presented by Martin Luther King Celebration Committee of Brazoria County, Inc. The Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee (MLKCC) donated 25 Chromebooks to students from 4 local school districts–Angleton ISD, Brazosport ISD, Sweeny ISD and Columbia-Brazoria ISD home school during a holiday celebration held at True Honor Missionary Baptist Church, Saturday, December 20th. MLKCC partnered with Hope for Tomorrow organization on identifying these students for this early Christmas gift. Jude Roberson, Founder of Hope For Tomorrow (HFT), in a conversation with Esther Williams, MLKCC member, voiced her concern that students were falling behind with school work due to unavailable resources. She stated thatRead More →