{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","contentId":"0000015f-987c-d644-a77f-fcfd23120003","url":"https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/community/supporting-detroits-at-risk-youth","headline":"Supporting Detroit’s at-risk youth","description":"We’re incredibly thankful for all the support we received to help transform Detroit Achievement Academy, a free public charter school in Detroit, MI exclusively serving at-risk youth. Over 90 volunteers and service providers contributed over 600 volunteer hours and the school received over $50,000 in product donations from generous customers and retail vendors.","datePublished":"2016-06-28T20:58:11Z","dateModified":"2016-06-28T20:58:11Z","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Erika Takeuchi"}],"image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://assets.aboutamazon.com/dims4/default/8b1a2cb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/591x296+0+102/resize/1200x600!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages-na.ssl-images-amazon.com%2Fimages%2FG%2F01%2FAnything%2Ftest%2Fimages%2Fdetail%2FLocalLoveDetroit._CB268670418_SX680__.jpg","width":"1200","height":"600"},"articleBody":"# Supporting Detroit’s at-risk youth\n\nWe’re incredibly thankful for all the support we received to help transform Detroit Achievement Academy, a free public charter school in Detroit, MI exclusively serving at-risk youth. Over 90 volunteers and service providers contributed over 600 volunteer hours and the school received over $50,000 in product donations from generous customers and retail vendors. \n\nDespite rain (and even some snow!), we were able to complete three major renovations for the school: a new outdoor learning and play area, an overhaul of the school kitchen, and a full build-out of their new school location. The impact is best summarized by Kyle Smitley, Founder of Detroit Achievement Academy: *“*The Local Love program has been absolutely transformational and life-changing for us. Opening up a new school in Detroit is really expensive and hard. Local Love has given us a countless number of resources that we would have never ever been able to provide our students in a million years.”\n\nYou can see the full transformation of Detroit Achievement Academy and learn about other Local Love projects on [our website](https://www.amazon.com/p/feature/enermp7m2mvo8w3).","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"About Amazon","url":"https://www.aboutamazon.com","sameAs":["https://x.com/amazonnews","https://www.linkedin.com/company/amazon","https://www.instagram.com/amazonnews"],"logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://assets.aboutamazon.com/bd/8f/88e7b0314cc2bd05b9de3155a0fe/amazon-news.svg"},"parentOrganization":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Amazon","url":"https://www.amazon.com","sameAs":["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3884","https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)","https://x.com/Amazon"]}}}