Show and Tell with A Gift For Teaching

Last Tuesday, some of the Rock For Hunger crew were very fortunate to visit Show and Tell at A Gift For Teaching in Orlando, FL. It was a luncheon and tour of their facility that showed us some of the majors faults of the current education system and the needs that teachers, students and parents have to get our children properly educated.

At the end of the tour, we were given the opportunity to shop around their retail store, collecting items for hypothetical situations of real world teachers. Upon completion, Melissa, one of our friendly tour guides, tallied up our shopping and allowed us to see the savings these teachers were seeing when they visited the store.

Some of out totals were pretty eye opening. The value of my items totaled $331.76, Patrick O'Brien whipped up close to $500 and even Chris managed to total in $462 worth of school supplies and Logan would have dropped $471 in a similar situation.


Some of our team stayed behind to talk about A Gift For Music, another program under the Gift For Teaching umbrella. Preliminary talks have some Orange County classical musicians opening up Rock For Hunger 4!

If you have children growing up in the Central Florida school system, you know that times are hard, and they are getting harder. Schools are being shut down, programs and activities are being cut and many children cannot afford basic supplies such as paper and pens.

With Rock For Hunger, we know that in order to cure poverty we need to start with education. Our tutors and meals program had its first field trip on Saturday (Chris will be giving a full recap tomorrow) and the glow in the kids eyes is something that we are very proud of. In order to grow our community, improve technology and innovation - we need to help our community out, grow together and help our neighbors.

If you are affected by the education system, I urge you to visit A Gift For Teaching, and see the difference this organization has made in 10 years in Orlando.

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Thanks for Rocking For Hunger Orlando!

-Greg Rollett

p.s. - get ready to Bowl For Hunger Orlando. Next Saturday, April 11th we will be showcasing our amazing bowling skills in an effort to raise over $1,000 for our developing programs including Talk 4 Hunger, Dreams Center Development and our Children's Educational Programs. Register here now!