Walton High School students receive $5K grant from United Way

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Through the SPARK Prize competition, United Way funds small grants to innovative projects to address homelessness in Cobb, Cherokee, Douglas & Paulding. We are excited to announce that American Assimilation Helpline  leaderrs Abhishek Kona, Abhinav Kona and Elly Kang were awarded $5,000! This grant will be going towards our Learning Labs for low-income students, making access to technology much more widespread!

AAH! is an educational global nonprofit organization led by three high school students – Abhishek Kona and Abhinav Kona, seniors at Walton High School, and Elly Kang, a junior at Marist School. It is dedicated to provide free, virtual, and personalized one-on-one tutoring for core academic subjects and computer science for low-income, immigrant, refugee, and homeless students weekly. Its mission is focused on creating equal opportunities for those marginalized in STEM and reducing the wealth and gender gap. AAH! has also been hosting events to address other key issues such as distributing laptops, blood drives with the American Red Cross, health workshops such as CPR training, initiatives fighting against breast cancer, donating school supply drives, helping homeless children, and the Keep Cobb Beautiful Adopt-A-Mile program.