Many thanks to our guests, sponsors, friends, board members, staff, and volunteers – everyone who helped make our Celebrating the Next Generation: Youth Empowerment Program fundraising party a success! The purpose was to raise awareness and support for our YEP program. Waccamaw High School senior Carvers Bay High School senior Emalee Walter gave a moving speech...
Jocelyn Kinloch is another success story of how Helping Handsoffers programs that impacts the lives of others. Jocelyn’smother learned of YEP (Youth Empowerment Program) whileparticipating in Helping Hands’ GC3 program as she wasworking to improve her employment skills and opportunities.After discussions with her mother and Career Coach NatashaSmith, Jocelyn chose to join YEP as she...
Helping Hand of Georgetown is pleased to announce that Alexia George, an Andrews native and graduate of Class 2001, has founded the Sista Sista scholarship. The scholarship will be awarded to one senior from Andrews, Georgetown and Caver Bay High schools, who participated in the Youth Empowerment Program. She stated as a leader you must...
Helping Hands of Georgetown County has been awarded a $10,000 grant to support the Youth Empowerment Program. Funding will expand opportunities for sophomores, juniors and seniors in three Georgetown County High Schools to explore career opportunities, cultural experiences and team-building exercises offering windows of new possibilities and perspectives toward school and personal efforts. “We are...
https://youtu.be/izYA0k56XzA For more information about the Youth Empowerment Program, visit https://www.helpinghandsofgeorgetown.org/programs/youth-empowerment-program/ or contact Tasha Smith at tsmith@helpinghandsofgeorgetown.org. ...
Cynthia Simon is very proud of what her daughter accomplished her senior year as she blossomed into a different person. “Imani used to be shy and very introverted, but that is no longer. I have seen so much change in her in one year. It has been unbelievable. The Youth Empowerment Program has been a blessing...
Mrs. Holmes is the grandmother of India Brown, a 2019 YEP graduate from Georgetown High School. India will start her sophomore year at Winthrop University, majoring in Biology, this fall. “ I had no idea of the opportunity that had been afforded to her. It was a gift of grace in both our lives,” said...
Message from Rev. Ronald McInnis We are ecstatic about our Youth Empowerment Program (YEP). The reason for our overwhelming joy is because of the possibilities we have created for 3 of our high schools within Georgetown County. Andrews High School, Carvers Bay High School, and Georgetown High School can look forward to an amazing relationship. We have...
Helping Hands is pleased to announce that Joan and Tim Meacham have established a scholarship fund to support one graduating Youth Empowerment Program senior from each participating high school including Andrews, Cavers Bay, and Georgetown High. The fund is established for a first-generation college-bound student who successfully completes YEP. The selection process will be based...
“I am a different person today because of the Youth Empowerment Program,” states Jairon Cumbee, a rising senior. “I had no idea what to expect. I was led to be a part of YEP even though I was only a Junior at the time. Teon Singletary and Tasha Smith made me feel welcomed. It was...
“I always thought of myself as a good follower to a good leader. I was surprised to learn that I am a leader,” said Imani Simon, daughter of Cynthia and Ronald Simon, a senior at Georgetown High School. Imani was 1 of 12 students enrolled in our Youth Empowerment Program who completed the North Carolina...
Twelve Georgetown County Youth Empowerment High School navigated the Florida Everglades in canoes for a week (December 16-20) as part of an Outward Bound trip. The group was divided into two teams and each team departed December 16 and did not see each other again until Friday, December 20. Each team, led by a North Carolina...