Fowler YMCA Teens Give Back

By Deb Harris

Mission: Atlanta (M:A) is a week long event organized by the Atlanta YMCA to mobilize a large number of teens in service to the Atlanta community. 

This June, 6 teens from Fowler YMCA experienced a week of incredible fun and service at M:A.  Fowler Y teens joined over 200 other teens serving and planning activities for kids in under-resourced communities all over Atlanta.

For the past nine years, Mission: Atlanta has become a yearly tradition for many high school and college age volunteers to give back in the Atlanta community. “It is a great chance to give back,” says Preston Copeland, a YMCA volunteer.

Volunteers spent the week at a local Y and spent their nights with fellow volunteers.  Every morning they left for their specific volunteer sites where they spent the day inviting kids from the neighborhood’s to come play, participate in arts and crafts and enjoy lunches that the volunteers made for the kids.  

In the evenings the volunteer came together and had opportunities to meet new friends and reconnect with old friends from previous M:A’s with group dinners and events such as Braves games, Stone Mountain Park Laser Show and a huge scavenger hunt at Fowler Park.

“M:A is a blast and I love coming back every year to help out and also to meet new friends” says Fowler Y teen Jabri Hicks.  M:A is an opportunity for teens to break away from their everyday lives and spend a week helping others.  

If you or your teen are interested in participating in M:A, please contact Craig Lovingood, Teen Coordinator at Fowler Y atcraigl@ymcaatlanta.org