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Our students’ success depends on our ability to provide them with intense academic support and structure, as well as our ability to find resources in the community to help them deal with the problems of transportation, childcare, employment, criminal justice, nutrition, birth control, and more.

You can help with either monetary or in-kind donations or gifts of your time and energy. The costs associated with educating a student limits the number of students we can successfully serve.

We gratefully acknowledge our major funders, past and present.

With your tax-deductible donation*, you can ensure that all hard-working students, regardless of their background or ability, are given every opportunity to succeed. We estimate that it costs us $2,500 to educate a student through his/her GED and an additional $1,000 to provide the necessary postsecondary support.

Support Achievement Academy of Durham today

Donate online through the Network For Good, or by mailing your donation directly to us at:

Achievement Academy of Durham
P.O. Box 15656
Durham, NC 27704-0656

Please make checks payable to “Achievement Academy of Durham”

Quella's Success Story

I am 17. When I was younger, my father slapped me around most of the time and my mother didn’t have time for me. One night when my father came home drunk, he beat me very badly. That was the first time life that I ever fought back, but it didn’t help me at all. That was the beginning of me rebelling against my father. By the time I was 13, my parents divorced. My mother started dating and seeing new people. I struggled with my mother because she put her ‘relationships’ before my sister and me. At 14 years old I was going through hell. I started having thoughts about killing myself and hurting the people around me. My life was defined by problems at school and problems at home. At 15 I was getting in fights and hanging out with the wrong crowd in school. I eventually got into a fight that resulted in my getting expelled from school for the rest of the year. At the age of 16 I had to start ninth grade all over again. That was very depressing and hard for me to face.

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