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Honoring the Nu-Juice Foundation for its dedicated service and commitment to the people of Philadelphia as exemplified through the "Keepin' It Real Tour."
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WHEREAS, The Nu-Juice Foundation is a Philadelphia non-profit organization that has been working with disadvantaged community youth and their families to help them care about their future; and
WHEREAS, The Nu-Juice Foundation is an advocate for the community and believes it must educate the youth between the ages of 13 and 18 through self-motivation techniques that include real-life experiences; and
WHEREAS, The Nu-Juice Foundation seeks to teach real-life experiences that can encourage and create a positive workforce among our youth for the future because at least 50% of our urban youth dropout as early as the 9th grade in the Philadelphia Public School system; and
WHEREAS, The Nu-Juice Foundation seeks to provide students with the necessary preparation to become economically independent and self-sufficient leaders in their community; and
WHEREAS, Nu-Juice Foundation is the founder of the Keepin' It Real Tour, a television show that travels among the different city high schools to educate our school's youth about career possibilities; and
WHEREAS, The Keepin' It Real Tour plans to visit every public school in the city; and utilize role models and entertainers such as E. Steven Collins of TV/Radio One, Keiwana McKinney of Galaxy Enterprises and Marla Davis of the Pennsylvania Department of Health who will discuss career opportunities and successes in their own life; and
WHEREAS, The Tour will be recorded and available through Comcast for the purpose of expanding the message to our inner-city youth; now therefore
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA, That we hereby recognize and congratulate Eric Ward, Shareef Ward, Jerome Chaney and Ed Duckson of Nu-Juice Foundation for their outstanding community service and urge other role models and entertainers to partic...
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