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3 Community Organizations in Brooklyn Come Together to Distribute School Supplies

 

Community Givers. Tabitha Brathwaite, volunteer;
Brother Mike Harper, Sankofa Community
Empowerment; Jazz Fenton, Magnolia Board Member;
Brother Kwesi aka John Cummings; Andrea Brathwaite
aka Sister Cuchy, Magnolia Office Manager; and Brother
Quebutter

Magnolia Tree Earth Center of Bedford-Stuyvesant teamed up with Dreams Turn Reality and Sankofa Community Empowerment for Magnolia’s annual Back to School Drive, where bookbags and supplies are distributed to students up to high school.

Parents and students filled the main room at the Lafayette Avenue home of Magnolia, as Brother Quebutter, delivered an uplifting and motivational talk to the young people; telling of the greatness within them and how, through the greatness of each of them, they build the community. It was a talk that had them sitting up and speaking their names loud and proud.

 

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