Big Kidz was created to prepare children for the challenges that they’ll face in the world. It was established in 2006 based on the premise that humanities could positively affect literacy, mathematics, public speaking and artistic inclination. The foundation awarded the Renee Patton Scholarship to a student at Florida A&M University in honor of his late aunt.
“Tonight is actually our Christmas program that we do every year where we take the kids from different programs and bring them here [and] they get a chance to come out and display some of the things they learned over the summer,” shared Big Boi. “It’s great.”
Atlanta City councilman and Big Kidz Foundation board member Kwanza Hall said, “I’m thoroughly impressed with the board competition of the Big Kidz Foundation as well as the activities that Big Boi and everybody involved has been stepping up to the plate to ensure that we do the right thing by children in the city of Atlanta and … around the state, for that matter.”
Sponsors included Will Stephens of the Atlanta Hawks and Thrashers. “We’re here at Big Boi’s Big Kidz Foundation annual event and just happy to help out in any way that we can,” he said.
The future of the Big Kidz Foundation, according to Big Boi, is to open up a performing arts school for children age 3 and up. “This would be the place to give them the everyday skills that they can take away and use in the real world, even computer literacy,” he said. “At this school, they can be whatever they want to be or learn, whether it be arts or business.”
“It’s not just about making money,” he continued.
–tianna faulkner
For more information about the Big Kidz Foundation, call (404) 287-8556 or visit www.bigkidzfoundation.org.
