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January 25, 1996
Childcare center
Continued frompage 6A
lar knowledge. We have a pri
vate school from 3-5 basical
ly-”
She said the curriculum is
non-denominational. “We
don’t teach doctrine; we just
teach moral values and
Christianity to them,” Green
said.
The construction of the new
day care center was an inspi
ration, Green said. She says
she had a vision of What the
center should look like and
her husband, a lawyer, got a
general contractors license
and built the structures.
“The Lord gave us a vision.
We put it on paper and had it
drawn up and my husband
built it from the ground up.
The only expereience he had
was working with his grandfa
ther, a carpenter, when he
was a little boy.”
The main building has an
atrium in the middle of the
floor with two fountains,
including a waterfall. “The
kids look out of their class
rooms into a garden area,”
Green said. There’s a cafeteria
and chapel and the kids have
their own bathroom in each
classroom. Each classroom
has a door to the playground
area. The play area covers
nearly an acre of the campus.
The infant and toddler build
ing has a diaper changing
table in the middle of its floor
so teachers can watch the
other children while they are
changing diapers.
“The children are watched at
all times; their (teachers)
backs are never turned away
from the children,” Green
said. “The toddlers are potty
training so they have their
own restrooms, too, one per
classroom, like the older chil
dren.”
The Greens got grants from
the Smart Start program to
buy furniture and playground
equipment for the center. The
state funds are available to
help centers in low-income
areas provide top quality care.
The Green sons are now
ages 17 and 12. The couple
has been married 21 years.
At Angels Christian Day
Care, Roger Green, who left a
private law practice, handles
administrative work, and
Connie Green directs the staff
and works with the children.
Resume must be timely
Continued from page 6A
'What I recommend is stat
ing your achievements strong
ly, giving yourself full credit
for your accomplishments.
Many people find they have a
hard time doing that for them
selves; that's often why they
choose a professional service,"
adds Katz.
What should your resume do
for you? According to resume
writing experts, your resume
should market you, your
uniqueness and your
strengths. The resume goes
out on your behalf to repre
sent you and open the doors to
person-to-person discussions.
As the old expression states, a
good resume should "get your
foot in the door." The rest is
up to you.
Reparations due for slavery
continued from page 8A
"On the local level you and
others can begin lobbying city
officials and organizations for
resolutions in support of repa
rations for black people,"
according to the group's mem
bership recruitment litera
ture. Reparation backers
explain that the concept
emerged during the Civil War
when General William T.
Sherman issued Special Field
Order No. 15. It allocated
abandoned rice fields for the
use of freed slaves.
Though vetoed by President
Andrew Johnson, congression
al passage of the Freedmen's
bill is cited as another exam
ple. Historically, the promise
of this legislation produced a
popular praise of that time,
"forty acres and a mule," sug
gesting a basic benefit for for
mer slaves. Politicians of that
time were responsible for pas
sage of several homesteading
laws.
N'COBRA literature also
mentions the National Ex-
Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty
and Pension Association,
which existed from the late
1800s to about 1915, as a
precedent.
National Newspaper
Publishers Association colum
nist Wiliam Reed provided
other examples in a national
ly-distributed column written
last month.
"There is a precedent for an
apology and compensation in
U.S. history," he wrote. "The
government has paid compen
sation to some Indian nations,
made formal apology to the
indigenous people of Hawaii,
and paid $20,000 to many
Japanese people who were
wrongfully incarcerated dur
ing World War II."
Afrik, a retired public school
educator, is an instructor at
Northeastern Illinois
University, while Scott oper
ates a child development cen
ter. She is a certified teacher
and accredited Christian edu
cator.
Charlotte chapter co-leaders
are Russell Swilley and
Radhia Jaaber.
Computers a must to succeed
Continued from page 1A
dren with them, they will be
left out and shut out of the
mainstream of the 21st centu
ry.
• • •
Shelia Funderburk, vice
president of employment and
training at the Charlotte-
Mecklenburg Urban League,
said that organization is
focusing on computer training
as the key to making sure
African Americans prosper in
the 21st century.
“National and global employ
ers are seeking employees
who possess the technical
skills necessary to operate in
the new environment,” said
Funderburk.
Thanks to efforts such as
Charlotte’s Web, computers
are becoming more available,
including at community cen
ters, churches and other out
lets where children, even poor
children, can have access.
The Public Library Main
Branch uptown has two fully-
staffed computer rooms, the
Virtual Library for teenagers
and adults and one in the chil-
dren’s section. Computers are
also available in most branch
es.
• • •
But, the real power of the
computer can be found in the
home.
Kathy Procope is national
membership chair of the Black
Data Processors Association.
She works for Alltel
Communications as a systems
engineer at NationsBank.
Her son, Andre, age 11, has
access to her home computer,
which has a full encyclopedia
on CD-ROM and a connection
to the Internet.
“He just types in what he
wants information about and
it comes back with pictures
and even sound,” Procope
said. “He has heard Martin
Luther King’s speeches on it.”
“You can do so many things,”
she said. “We do our banking,
so we sign on and pay all our
bills. I know up to the minute
how much money is in my
account. I do my taxes on it. I
don’t go to H.R. Block.”
But Procope worries about
other African American chil
dren who are limited to a few
minutes of computer time in
their classrooms on outdated
Apple II and other first gener
ation personal computers.
Fewer still have access to
the Internet, that loosely orga
nized computer network tying
together massive databases of
information and millions of
personal computers in homes
and offices around the world.
“Parents don’t see the
need,” she said. “But there’s
not a desk today in America
that doesn’t have a PC on it.
They are going to have to
know what to do.”
The job options are endless,
from computer repair and
installation, to programming
new applications and games,
to sales and distribution, to
providing technical support by
phone to home computer own
ers.
“It is so new, it changes
every day,” Procope said. “You
can become an expert on
something overnight. All it
takes is commitment and a lit
tle bit of access.”
Children aren’t being pushed
to understand computers, or
made aware of the new indus
try as a viable career option.
Procope said.
“The reason behind it are
like math and science in
schools,” she said. “It is some
thing we are not encouraged
to do. There’s a fear. They
think it is hard and it’s really
not for our children.
Frank Williams, a Charlotte
photographer, has made the
computer an intregal part of
his business and personal life
since his brother gave him an
old computer three years ago.
“The Internet is a global
storehouse of knowledge for
man, woman and child to
access through their own
homes,” said Williams, who
began “cruising” the ‘net three'
years ago and now advisesa
local personal computer club.
Williams is now an advocate
for the purchase of home com
puters and connecting to the
Internet.
“My first experience in com
puters started in June of
1993,” Williams said. “My
brother, Ron Williams, gave
me an old hand-me-down com
puter, an IBM dinosaur. He
then got me online with
Prodigy where the two of us
would communicate via e-
mail. He was in Hartford,
Conn, and I in Charlotte.
“We now have relatives
online in Connecticut,
Virginia, Washington, DC,
California, and Jackson, Miss.
To e-mail them is like picking
up the phone and calling
across town.”
One of Williams’ most excit
ing contacts on the Internet
has been with Dudley Kenney,
who works with NASA and
helps launch space shuttle
flights.
Procope’s group, a 20-year-
old organization with chapters
in 44 cities and more than
1,600 members, has set up
training programs for young
African Americans.
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