Serving Students at Main Street Academy as a Volunteer

On Thursday morning, Kemi Egbewole was at Main Street Academy giving the school another day of her time as a volunteer.

Main Street is an alternative school. Egbewole volunteers there because she knows what it’s like to go through some of the things they are doing through and wants to do what she can to help them.

“I went to an alternative school to get my GED,” she said.

That was when she was living in Atlanta.

What does she like about volunteering?

“Meeting the students – seeing a lot of myself in them,” she said.

Her message to them is that they can make it through whatever they are dealing with.

Egbewole was named the school’s Volunteer of the Year for 2015-16 and they added her name to the “Outstanding Volunteers” plaque that hangs in the lobby.