{"id":18040,"date":"2015-12-23T09:35:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T14:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=18040"},"modified":"2015-12-23T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T14:27:03","slug":"ymcas-believe-and-achieve-helps-20-local-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=18040","title":{"rendered":"YMCA&#8217;s &#8216;Believe and Achieve&#8217; helps 20 local kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1247447\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/believe1-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1247447\" class=\"wp-image-1247447 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/believe1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"believe1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1247447\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Children from the YMCA of Greater Brandywine\u2019s afterschool program had an opportunity to meet with Jahlil Okafor and Isaiah Canaan from the Philadelphia 76ers, after they each received a $200 shopping spree at Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods in King of Prussia as part of the store\u2019s Shop With a Pro event.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>KING OF PRUSSIA &#8211; This week\u00a0the holidays were brighter for 20 local children from the YMCA of Greater Brandywine\u2019s Believe and Achieve program at the Oscar Lasko Youth Program Center in West Chester. These lucky children enjoyed a shopping spree with 76er\u2019s players, Jahlil Okafor and Isaiah Canaan, at Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods in King of Prussia. Smiles could be found on everyone\u2019s face as the delighted children shopped for family, friends and themselves. This was part of Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods Shop with a Pro event and made possible for these children through the Believe and Achieve Foundation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1247448\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/believe2-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1247448\" class=\"wp-image-1247448 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/believe2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"believe2\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1247448\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Representatives from The Believe &amp; Achieve Foundation present a check to the YMCA of Greater Brandywine, from which 20 children in their afterschool program each received a shopping spree worth $200 at Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods in King of Prussia as part of the store\u2019s Shop with a Pro event.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Believe and Achieve focuses on improving the lives and futures of children in need by providing safe, supervised quality care for ages 5 to 15. Believe and Achieve provides free after school care, five days a week, and a daily afternoon camp program during the summer for $10 per week. Believe and Achieve also provides a free, safe and fun full-day program on days off from school. Believe and Achieve is led by YMCA staff and community volunteers and provides kids with mentoring, tutoring, homework help, healthy fun and games, gym sports and swimming at the YMCA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ymcagbw.org\/youth-programs\/believe-and-achieve\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.ymcagbw.org\/youth-programs\/believe-and-achieve<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KING OF PRUSSIA &#8211; This week\u00a0the holidays were brighter for 20 local children from the YMCA of Greater Brandywine\u2019s Believe and Achieve program at the Oscar Lasko Youth Program Center in West Chester. These lucky children enjoyed a shopping spree with 76er\u2019s players, Jahlil Okafor and Isaiah Canaan, at Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods in King of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,4],"tags":[6936,6462],"class_list":["post-18040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-featured","tag-believe-and-achieve","tag-ymca-greater-brandywine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18041,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040\/revisions\/18041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}