Lights on After School is a big event that Dunn PAL’s Reach One Mentoring Program and Youth Leadership Council hosts every year. This year’s event will take place Saturday, October 13 at the Dunn PAL fitness center.
The students in these programs go around Dunn to churches and businesses to speak with them about coming to represent themselves at our event. There will be several different booths that the businesses can set up. This gives those establishments an opportunity to promote their services as well as give back to the community.
Each booth has different sets of school supplies that we give out to the children and parents that need it. Last year, over 300 book bags were given out, along with binders and boxes of crayons. Everything given out at this event is free — even the attending establishments do not have to pay for anything except for the supplies they bring. Everyone from the community that came to support and engage did not leave empty-handed. I speak on behalf of everyone in YLC and ROMP that participated when I say that it felt really good to be able to help our community and give back where it is needed the most.
