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by Kathleen Donner
Cash Assistance to Expectant Mothers in Ward 8
Amerigroup DC is providing Martha’s Table, a communitybased organization, with a $180,000 grant for a new cash assistance program for expectant mothers. This program will transfer $300 a month for a full year to 50 pregnant women living in Ward 8. Direct cash assistance is a proven way to promote family stability amid times of financial stress. Funding will cover increased costs families experience when preparing for and raising a newborn. www. marthastable.org
Ward 8 Woods Conservancy Wins $10,000 Grant
The Maryland-DelawareDC Beverage Association, in partnership with local beverage bottlers and the American Beverage Foundation for a Healthy America, has announced a $10,000 grant to the Ward 8 Woods Conservancy, a nonprofit organization that rejuvenates and enhances more than 500 acres of forest in Ward 8. The contribution will support environmental work along the Suitland Parkway, an area that boasts natural riches but has suffered from 26
National Geographic will prem the only one for which we kno iere a documentary special, “Clotilda: Last American Slav w the full story of the voyage, e Ship,” about the most inta ct slave shipwreck found to the passengers and their desc date and endants.
Transatlantic Slave Trade Podc
ast Launched Ahead of Black History Month , National Geographic has laun ched a new podcast, “Into Th transatlantic slave trade as it foll e Depth,” that uncovers the hist ows a group of black divers ded ory of the icated to finding and helping doc er is now available on Apple Pod ument slave shipwrecks. The seri casts and wherever podcasts are es trailfound, as well as at www.natgeo.co highlights the journey of Nation m/intothedepths. The six-part al Geographic Explorer Tara Rob series erts (@curvypath_tara on Instagra footsteps of Diving With a Pur m), who quit her job to follow pose, a group of black divers who in the traverse the globe in search of of the history that accompanies long-lost slave shipwrecks and them. The podcast follows Rob the truth erts from Florida to Costa Rica, in Edenton, North Carolina. and from Africa back to her fam ily home
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