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Residents successful Atlanta’s Kirkwood vicinity past week received a unsocial acquisition to their assemblage erstwhile Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms chopped the ribbon for the Good Neighbor Club astatine the Coan Park Recreation Center.
This Good Neighbor Club is the archetypal to see a multi-sensory inclusion room. It is the 2nd sensory inclusion country the Hawks and KultureCity person collaborated on. The archetypal is successful State Farm Arena that opened implicit 3 years agone aft the opening of the concern with KultureCity.
“This is what Atlanta is each about, it’s what Ambassador (Andrew) Young calls the Atlanta way,” Mayor Bottoms said to the crowd. “Where we person this coming unneurotic of government, philanthropic and our firm partners.”
State Farm and the Atlanta Hawks opened the caller nine successful concern with KultureCity, a non-profit focused connected accessibility and inclusion for radical with invisible disabilities.
Pro Basketball Hall-of-Famer Dominique Wilkins, who besides sits connected the committee of KultureCity, explained wherefore it was truthful important for the Good Neighbor Club to person a multi-sensory inclusion room.
“Autism is each astir us, hidden disabilities are each astir us. We person to beryllium compassionate astir however radical live,” Wilkins said. “We person a work to proceed to amended ourselves.”
While this Good Neighbor Club volition chiefly service the Kirkwood and Greenwood neighborhoods, implicit the past 3 years State Farm and the Hawks person opened six others passim metro Atlanta.
“Our communities are what shapes our lives and to cognize that Atlanta Hawks and State Farm are consenting to spell the other mile to guarantee that everyone, nary substance their ability, is included successful their assemblage is amazing,” KultureCity Executive Director Uma Srivastava said successful a statement.
After the ribbon cutting ceremonial children of each abilities were invited to instrumentality portion successful the caller activities offered astatine the Good Neighbor Club and successful the caller multi-sensory inclusion room.
Current Hawks subordinate Kevin Huerter and District 5 Councilwoman Natalyn Archibong besides attended the expansive opening.
Madeline Thigpen is an acquisition newsman and Report for America Corps Member. She joined the Atlanta Voice successful 2021. At the Voice she covers K-12 acquisition for the Atlanta metro portion and higher education.... More by Madeline Thigpen
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