The mission of the ‘Walk With Me Community Improvement Center’ is to Educate, Empower & Improve the quality of life for individuals and the families in low income and at risk communities by promoting community involvement and awareness through a variety of programs and activities with emphasis on:
- Community Activeness, Responsibility & Involvement
- Academic Enrichment and Excellence
- Promoting Higher Education and Continuing Education
- Eradicating the academic gap for children in low income communities
- Advancing the understanding of technology
- Economic Training
- Unity
- Implementing, Encouraging and advancing Family Support Initiatives
- Senior Citizen Empowerment and Support
- Eliminating the Homeless Epidemic
- HIV/A.I.D.S Education
- Health Education
- Finance and Credit Education
- Equality for All
- Faith
This concept of a community center, is one that provide a haven for children to develop academic skills and to express themselves through the arts, has proven to be a continual and dominant need to the many communities that we’ve serviced. In 2007, the organization enrolled 250 children in the summer program and served more than 150. Walk With Me C.I.C. developed a grounded academic enrichment program for these students and also partnered with a Houston Public Library Branch to offer after school snacks and tutorials. Students, many of whom had not had the opportunity to travel before due to their family’s financial capabilities, were able to go on an educational expedition in Atlanta; one during which they were able to visit Morehouse University, Spellman University. The Martin Luther King Jr. Center and the Civil Rights Museum, to name a few locations
