My Community Input

Stepping to raise money for the homeless
The stepping project is in the process of getting started. The purpose for this project is to provide me and my friends with an activity that we're passionate about and food for the homeless. We plan to enter competitions and win cash prizes that we'll give to the homeless

                                                    Cutting Hair for the youth

The Cutting hair project was started to provide those who cant afford to pay for a hair cut and for my peers who often have to spend money on more important matter

scholarships that are fit for me

Atlantascholarship.com

 Alice food sxholarship

 Omega sci Phi scholarship

 A a achievement scholarship

 Ron brown scholarship

Community scholarships for greater atlanta

 Georgia Mining Foundation Scholarship

 Atlanta Housing Resident Scholarship Program

Dreams2 Scholarship Fund

 Jim Maddox Scholarship

 The Dorothy Laney Kelly Scholarship

AHEPA MOTHER LODGE CHAPTER NO. 1 EDUCATIONAL FUND, INC

 Watson Brown Scholarship

School counciler

 Boys & Girls Clubs of America Scholarships

Hope scholarship

 Project grad  

Sidewalks for Crawford. W. Long

    Terrence Mathews

7/3/12

   

     Cars speeding up and down the road; sharp rocks and debris on both sides of the road. To many this sounds like a typical highway but, for me, this sounds like the road that students at Crawford. W. Long have to take every day.  There are not sidewalks that students can take to get to my middle school so they are forced to walk in the street and risk getting hit by a car. I do not believe that students should have to worry about things like this so I am going to make a change. I believe that the best type of community service that you can do is something that you are passionate about, and I am passionate about protecting the children in my neighborhood. That is why I have started an initiative called Side walk for Crawford. W. Long.

     My neighborhood is not a good neighborhood. There are drug dealers up and down the street. Police chases are a common thing in my neighborhood and when the police are trying to catch a criminal, the speed limit is nothing more than some numbers on a sign.  This only increases the danger that children going to Crawford. W. Long have to face. My sister and her friends have to walk to and from school everday. I feel like it is my objective to create a safer route instead of them having to walk in the street. It’s not only for the safety of my sister and her friends it will also increase the aesthetics of the area as well. I plan on raising awareness of the dangers these students face at Crawford. W. Long and ultimately get city officials to put in sidewalks.

 I started by asking programs that im in for help on ths project. The members of the talented tenth program actually agreed to partner with me on this project. The Talented Tenth is a prominent, non- profit organization dedicated to helping the inner city, less fortunate, African American youth of Atlanta strive for academic excellence, to have integrity and to become culturally enriched. We divided up task among different members of the organization. My just was to utilize social media to raise awareness about the situation, I have created a blog (http://terrencematt1.blogspot.com/) and well as a Facebook page(http://www.facebook.com/#!/SideWalksForCrawfordWLongMiddleSchool) to get the word out. It was also my duty to help create a video so that people could have a visual of how dangerous this street is. The video is going to be students actually walking to school and fast “real” what the video will do is show the students worries and that there aware of their risk of walking in the street. This video may come in handy trying to persuad people like the mayor that we need sidewalks in our neighborhood. I may also have to get petitions signed and constantly call the mayor, but whatever It takes my desire is to accomplish this goal. I look forward to getting those side walks and feeling really good inside.

Desire to escape the ghetto

Terrence Mathews

 7/2/12

   My neighborhood has a great influence on my life. It’s mostly the experiences I’ve had in my neighborhood that made an impact. My neighborhood isn’t a nice neighborhood. I live with my mom and two sisters. The bad conditions of my neighborhood influence me to get a good education so that I can do better than my mom.

          In my neighborhood theirs drug dealers up and down the street. My mom always told me drug dealers only end up dead or in jail. I had no choice but to believe her because every month a drug dealer was the neighborhood topic. There was either a dealer in a police chase or shoot out. There’s also girl & boy gangs in my neighborhood, which could have an effect on my little sister. I want to do better so that I can move my family into a better setting. When I walk to the corner store I have to worry about the junkies asking for cash. I want better for my future; I want to live with no worries.

          My god mom lived up the street. She became my god mom when I became a sophomore in high school. I knew her ever since the second grade. I gained a lot from her. She helps me when I was having trouble with homework and school issues. She’s like a second mom to me. I feel like a good education increases my chance of being successful. I didn’t take school too serious until the summer before my freshman year of high school. I spent that summer with my god mom. The advice she gave increased my desire for the skill of studying. I was told in order to be successful I would have to work harder than others. I knew in order to be a diligent worker in school I would have to enhance my studying and reading skills.

    I grew up the wrong group of friends. The friends I grew hung with had bad influences on me. We started smoking marijuana. We stole candy from stores as if it was worth it. We also did careless thing like broke in abandoned homes to vandalize. When I hung with my friends I felt like I was the only one with common sense and a conscious. They were careless about the stupid thing we did. My friends grew up in the same neighborhood as me, but they were more above the influence. Two of my friends sold marijuana and were locked up. I knew that I wanted better for myself and I wanted to go to college, hanging with them wasn’t going to get me there.

           My grandparents had an influence on me as well. My grandfather taught me how to draw and paint well. He’s an artist. My grandmother always gave me positive advice. They were both a positive influence on me.