STARTING AT 430 THIS WEEKEND. MISS CLEMSON, AN UPSTATE NATIVE AND CLEMSON GRADUATE, WAS CROWNED MISS SOUTH CAROLINA. HER PLATFORM HELPING CHILDREN OF INCARCERATED PARENTS. BUT AS OUR PEYTON FURTADO LEARNED, IT’S A CAUSE NEAR AND DEAR TO HER HEART. THE STORY, ALL NEW AT SIX. THEY SAY A BOOK IS LIKE A WINDOW INTO THE WORLD. AND FOR CHILDREN WHOSE PARENTS ARE BEHIND BARS, IT CAN MEAN A WHOLE LOT MORE THAN JUST THAT. THE GREEN GRASS AND FLOWERS GROW TALL. WHILE ORGANIZATIONS LIKE RILEY’S READERS RECORD INCARCERATED PARENTS READING BEDTIME STORIES TO THEIR CHILDREN. HOPEFULLY THIS IS SOMETHING THEY CAN, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY’RE FEELING DOWN OR THEY’RE FEELING LOW. THEY CAN OPEN IT UP AND HEAR MY VOICE. NONPROFIT PROVERBS 226 RECONCILES CHILDREN WITH THEIR INCARCERATED PARENTS AND HELPS THEM HIT THE BOOKS. THIS LASTED 12 YEARS. PEYTON. WE HAVE GIVEN SCHOLARSHIPS TO 106 CHILDREN. UH, WELL OVER $900,000 HAS BEEN GIVEN AS A SCHOLARSHIP TO THESE CHILDREN. THESE KIDS ARE SIX TIMES MORE LIKELY TO BE IN PRISON THEMSELVES COMPARED TO THE AVERAGE HIGH RATE OF PREGNANCY. HIGH RATE OF DEPRESSION. UH, AND, YOU KNOW, THESE CHILDREN ARE DROPPING OUT OF SCHOOL. DAVIS WATCHED THE NEWLY CROWNED MISS SOUTH CAROLINA. IS WORKING WITH BOTH ORGANIZATIONS TO BRING CHANGE BECAUSE BEHIND HER CROWN WAS ONCE A GIRL IN A SIMILAR POSITION. MY FATHER HAD TO SERVE EIGHT MONTHS IN FEDERAL PRISON FOR A WHITE COLLAR CRIME, A FINANCIAL CRIME. THE CHILDREN THAT WERE SITTING IN THE WAITING ROOM WITH ME THAT WERE FAR YOUNGER THAN 18, I COULDN’T IMAGINE THEM TRYING TO COPE WITH THAT SITUATION. SINCE THEN, WASH AN UPSTATE NATIVE AND CLEMSON GRAD, WAS CROWNED MISS CLEMSON, VOLUNTEERING WITH CHILDREN IN NEED, SPEAKING WITH INMATES IN HIGH SECURITY PRISONS. SHE USED HER PLATFORM TO BRING A SPOTLIGHT TO A DARK PLACE. AND AS MISS SOUTH CAROLINA, I KNEW THAT THAT WAS MY CALL TO ACTION AND THAT WAS THE TIME I NEEDED TO MAKE A CHANGE AND I HOPE THAT I DON’T THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT. SHE PLANS ON DOING THE SA
Clemson graduate, Miss South Carolina 2024’s previous helps her change the long run
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On Saturday, Miss Clemson, Davis Wash, a Clemson graduate, was topped Miss South Carolina.Her platform focuses on serving to kids of incarcerated dad and mom, working with organizations like Riley’s Readers, which information incarcerated dad and mom studying bedtime tales to their kids.”Hopefully that is one thing that when they’re feeling down and feeling low, they will open it up and listen to my voice,” stated an imprisoned father to our crews final yr as he recorded his bedtime story.One other space nonprofit, Proverbs 226, reconciles kids with their imprisoned dad and mom and helps them excel academically.”In these final 12 years, we have now given scholarships to 106 kids,” stated Cyril Prabhu, Proverbs 226’s founder. “Nicely over $900,000 has been given as scholarships to those kids.”In South Carolina, the Division of Corrections says 17 p.c of launched prisoners are rearrested. Out of this system’s 815 dad and mom, Prabhu says solely 33 have been rearrested within the final 12 years.In accordance with the Nationwide Institute of Justice, these youngsters are six occasions extra prone to be imprisoned themselves in comparison with the typical.”You’ve got a excessive fee of being pregnant, a excessive fee of despair. And , these kids are dropping out of college,” Prabhu defined.The newly topped Miss South Carolina, is working with each organizations to result in change. Behind the crown, there’s a private connection to her trigger.”My father needed to serve 8 months in federal jail for a white-collar crime, a monetary crime,” stated Wash on Monday. “Wanting on the kids that have been sitting within the ready room with me, who have been far youthful than 18, I could not think about them attempting to deal with that scenario,” she stated.Since then, Wash has represented Clemson College effectively. She was just lately topped Miss Clemson, volunteered with kids in want, spoke with inmates in high-security prisons, and used her platform to convey a highlight to a darkish place.”And I knew that that was my name to motion and that it was time to make a change in a gap that I do not suppose lots of people learn about,” Wash stated.Now topped Miss South Carolina 2024, she plans to take her message statewide.
On Saturday, Miss Clemson, Davis Wash, a Clemson graduate, was topped Miss South Carolina.
Her platform focuses on serving to kids of incarcerated dad and mom, working with organizations like Riley’s Readers, which information incarcerated dad and mom studying bedtime tales to their kids.
“Hopefully that is one thing that when they’re feeling down and feeling low, they will open it up and listen to my voice,” stated an imprisoned father to our crews final yr as he recorded his bedtime story.
One other space nonprofit, Proverbs 226, reconciles kids with their imprisoned dad and mom and helps them excel academically.
“In these final 12 years, we have now given scholarships to 106 kids,” stated Cyril Prabhu, Proverbs 226’s founder. “Nicely over $900,000 has been given as scholarships to those kids.”
In South Carolina, the Division of Corrections says 17 p.c of launched prisoners are rearrested. Out of this system’s 815 dad and mom, Prabhu says solely 33 have been rearrested within the final 12 years.
In accordance with the Nationwide Institute of Justice, these youngsters are six occasions extra prone to be imprisoned themselves in comparison with the typical.
“You’ve got a excessive fee of being pregnant, a excessive fee of despair. And , these kids are dropping out of college,” Prabhu defined.
The newly topped Miss South Carolina, is working with each organizations to result in change. Behind the crown, there’s a private connection to her trigger.
“My father needed to serve 8 months in federal jail for a white-collar crime, a monetary crime,” stated Wash on Monday. “Wanting on the kids that have been sitting within the ready room with me, who have been far youthful than 18, I could not think about them attempting to deal with that scenario,” she stated.
Since then, Wash has represented Clemson College effectively. She was just lately topped Miss Clemson, volunteered with kids in want, spoke with inmates in high-security prisons, and used her platform to convey a highlight to a darkish place.
“And I knew that that was my name to motion and that it was time to make a change in a gap that I do not suppose lots of people learn about,” Wash stated.
Now topped Miss South Carolina 2024, she plans to take her message statewide.
