FOR
IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED TO HELP BUILD
PLAYGROUND
WHAT:
Volunteers are needed to help build a playground in one day for children at
Langston Hughes Academy Charter School (3519
Trafalgar St .) in New Orleans. On Monday, Feb. 6, more than 200 volunteers
from Verint® Systems, ACCENT on Arrangements, Inc., FirstLine
Schools and Langston Hughes Academy Charter School, organizers from KaBOOM! and
residents of the local community will join forces build a new playground at the
school. The new playground’s design is based on drawings created by children
who participated in a Design Day event in January.
No experience is necessary, and there are jobs for people of all ages and
abilities. Volunteers must pre-register by contacting lhakaboom@gmail.com or 504-307-2383.
WHY:
The
new playground will provide nearly 300 children in the community with a safe
place to play. Currently, the children who attend Langston Hughes Academy
Charter School do not have a playground for students to enjoy.
The playground will be the first built by KaBOOM! and Verint and is one of more
than 150 playground builds KaBOOM! will lead across the country in 2012 in an
effort to fulfill its vision of a great place to play within walking distance
of every child in America.
Langston
Hughes Academy
The mission of Langston
Hughes Academy Charter School is to provide students with the knowledge, skills
and character traits necessary to succeed in high school, college and the world
beyond. Our goal is to send every student to college by preparing them for the
best public and private high schools in the New Orleans area. Learn more at http://www.langstonhughesacademy.org.
FirstLine
Schools
The
mission of FirstLine Schools is to create and inspire great public schools in
New Orleans. FirstLine currently operates Samuel J. Green Charter School,
Arthur Ashe Charter School, John Dibert Community School, Langston Hughes
Academy, and Joseph S. Clark Preparatory High School.
Verint Systems Inc.
Verint®
(NASDAQ: VRNT) is the global leader in Actionable Intelligence®
solutions and value-added services. Its extensive portfolio of Enterprise
Intelligence Solutions™ and
Security Intelligence Solutions™
helps worldwide organizations capture and analyze complex, underused
information sources—such as voice, video and unstructured text—to enable more
timely, effective decisions. More than 10,000 organizations in 150 countries,
including over 85 percent of the Fortune 100, use Verint solutions to improve
enterprise performance and make the world a safer place. Headquartered in N.Y.
and a member of the Russell 3000 Index, Verint has offices worldwide and an
extensive global partner network. Learn more at www.verint.com.
ACCENT on
Arrangements, Inc., a DMC Network Company
Founded in 1991 by
Diane B. Lyons, ACCENT on Arrangements, Inc. is a privately held corporation
with the primary interest of planning, managing and supervising group
activities to include spouse/guest programs, team building activities, special
events, entertainment and décor, transportation services, speaker programs,
hospitality staff and VIP services as well as children’s programs and events.
Headquartered in New Orleans, ACCENT has a management team with more than 90
years of combined destination management experience. It is a proud member of
the DMC Network, an LLC of the top performing, wholly owned DMCs through North
America.
KaBOOM!
KaBOOM!
is the national non-profit dedicated to saving play. Children today spend less
time playing outdoors than any previous generation, a fact that is having
disastrous consequences on their health, achievement levels, and overall
well-being. To fight this play deficit, social entrepreneur Darell Hammond
founded non-profit KaBOOM! in 1996 in Washington, D.C. with a vision of
creating a great place to play within walking distance of every child in
America. Since then, KaBOOM! has mapped over 89,000 places to play, built more
than 2,000 playgrounds, and successfully advocated for play policies in
hundreds of cities across the country. KaBOOM! also provides communities with
online tools to self-organize and take action to support play on both a local
and national level. Hammond chronicles the founding of the organization and the
importance of the cause of play in his The New York Times Best
Seller KaBOOM!: How One Man Built a Movement to Save
Play.
The book details how businesses and communities can work together to save play
for children across the country. All author proceeds support KaBOOM!.
Headquartered in Washington, D.C., KaBOOM! also has offices in Chicago and San
Mateo, Calif. For more information, visit www.kaboom.org.
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