Personal hygiene items play a major role in the maintenance of health, well-being and dignity. Some items often overlooked are hair and skin care products, specifically for African Americans. Not all hair and skin care products meet the unique needs of the African American Community and many social workers and case managers, in our schools, find it difficult to provide these necessary items to these students due to the small portion of hair-care products made for this demographic.

To mitigate these challenges, RISE ABOVE POVERTY is launching an effort to collect and give out shampoo, specifically for African American hair. All products donated will be distributed to African American students we serve in the Syracuse City School District.

So please donate to this worthy cause. Your support makes it possible to eliminate humiliation, promote learning and offer hope to those students in need.

Thank you for your support!!

To our wonderful community, your donations have provided us an opportunity to help another school. Our visit at Ed Smith Elementary. We donated several hygiene items last week.

Today, we ventured into the town of Solvay to help their school and students. Although we are not based in the district we could not refuse the opportunity to help others. To our wonderful community, your donations have provided us an opportunity to help another school in another district. You are simply the best!

Thank you Lisa Coggi, Brad Micho, Russ Stanton, Walter Benedict. We donated several hygiene items last week.