United Way of Greater Houston donates to Spring Shadows Elementary School

United Way President and CEO Anna M. Babin presents Spring Shadows Principal Jerona Williams with a check for $5,000 to be spent on technology devices for students.

United Way of Greater Houston recently donated $5,000 to Spring Shadows Elementary School.

According to a press release, "a pilot reading program marking its initial eight-week session in the district with a campus gathering Tuesday, Dec. 11. At the event United Way President and CEO Anna M. Babin presented Spring Shadows Principal Jerona Williams with a check for $5,000 to be spent on technology devices for students. Spring Shadows Elementary was one of two campuses in the region to pilot the United Ways reading program, which is designed to train and match adult volunteers with second-graders to help improve the identified students reading skills. The other pilot school was Bruce Elementary in Houston ISD."

"We see United Way's work coming alive here," Babin said in the press release. "All todays students are our future workforce. To be ready for their future, they need to be reading well and ready for reading now."

United Way of Greater Houston is at 50 Waugh Drive, Houston.

For more information, call 713-251-7100, visit www.unitedwayhouston.org/ or email eddavis@unitedwayhouston.org.

Spring Shadows Elementary School is at 9725 Kempwood Drive, Houston.

For more information, call 713-251-7100 or visit www.sse.springbranchisd.com/.