WOMEN HISTORY
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A nonprofit organization whose mission is to partner with school districts, colleges, stakeholders and community partners to implant on campus resource centers to provide free basic needs, life skills, counseling, and other resources to equip, educate, and empower students, their families and the community to help meet needs to break down barriers that affect the classroom, create/expand opportunities, to support academic success.
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S.W.A.P. RESOURCE CENTERS OUR WHY Our founder was the teacher like so many more with a closet in their classroom that was not just filled with educational materials but with all the basic needs that kids need to survive because their families were struggling to provide it. There are many basic needs that have to be met but the most important and detrimental to life is physical survival. That is having food, water, clothing, shelter, sleep and oxygen. If a person cannot satisfy this basic survival need it dominates their interest and concern. A child who is cold, sleep deprived or hungry will not be very interested in socializing or learning. Bodies of children with consistently unmet needs go into more of a survival mode, and it literally alters their brain chemistry. It affects not just their bodies, but now educators are not able to teach them in school. Our goal is to alleviate those barriers. We partner
WOMEN ON THE RISE
