DALLAS (WBAP/KLIF)- Dallas-based AT&T donates $300,000 to local agencies that support homeless kids in Dallas.
The checks will go to After8toEducate and Incarnation house.
After8toEducate’s goal is to improve life outcomes and promote self-sufficiency by giving unsheltered DISH high school students a safe place and offering education as a pathway out of homelessness and poverty. Incarnation House is an after school program that prepares North Dallas High School homeless and housing insecure youth for life success.
Each agency will receive $150,000 to help provide educational, emotional and other support services to help the homeless students they serve.
“There are 4,000+ homeless students each year at Dallas ISD, many of whom who are unsheltered,” said Mike Peterson AT&T Vice President of External affairs. “I think we are all shocked to learn this, it’s a very high number,” he said.
Peterson said the agencies contact these students in an effort to life them up and provide the services and resources they need so they can graduate from school.
This is part of a ‘Believe Dallas’ campaign to tackle the homeless problem in Dallas.
