WADMALAW ISLAND, S.C. (WCSC) – Christmas is coming early for students from Frierson Elementary School. Not only did they get to see Santa on Friday, 173 kids are going home with brand new bikes.
Each student is given a bike, a helmet and a lock.
It’s all thanks to a nonprofit called ‘Going Places’. The organization works to help children living in poverty.
Katie Blomquist, Founder and Executive Director of Going Places, said all of their students’ were in shock when they first saw the bikes.
“This shock on their faces is what we live for when they get here. But a lot of the teachers say when they get back to the classroom that’s when they’re like ‘Oh my gosh, this is for me, like I get to keep this.’ and then kids like fall to the ground out of shock,” Blomquist said.
Beyond Our Gates Foundation of Kiowa in Seabrook donated $20,000 to make today’s giveaway possible along with the help of 150 volunteers in green apparel who spent one whole day building the bikes and another loading them.
It was all in anticipation of the big bicycle-reveal, and what it would mean to the kids.“I was super excited when I came outside and saw all the bikes and everybody here,” Grayson Knox, a student at Frierson Elementary said.“It really means so much more to them than just the bike. It’s freedom and escape, it’s a sense of restored innocence, it’s something of value to own. It’s so much more than the actual […]
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