Cobb EMC Donates Trucks To Youth Challenge Academy
Cobb Electric Membership Corporation (Cobb EMC) recently donated two 1999 GMC Sierra pick-up trucks to the Georgia National Guard Youth Challenge Academy (YCA). The Academy provides at-risk youth with military, academic, work, and life skills training. Program participants benefit from improved employment potential and learn to become productive citizens.
Lt. Gen. David B. Poythress, Adjutant General of Georgia, Col. Frank Williams, Georgia National Guard Director of Youth Programs and several other of the YCA cadre were on-hand to receive the vehicle titles from Cobb EMC CEO Dwight Brown and drive them to the Fort Stewart and Fort Gordon campuses where they will be used.
Georgia’s Youth Challenge Academy program, an 11-year-old organization with campuses located at Fort Stewart and Fort Gordon near Augusta, has graduated approximately 4,000 formerly at-risk youth. The program is considered one of the top Youth Challenge Programs in the nation.