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ent-A-Kid Growth Past
:xpectations, Chief Says
By PLU TRIBBLE ing, stuffing envelopes, most any kind of tempo- assistants,” Mrs. Ruyle said. “They help in s--
y h ; rving and cleaning up at parties.’’ Present.~
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Atlanta motels and hotels.
Some of the job requests are a little unusus.
the adminsitrator said. One caller asked fer =
baby sitter—for four St. Bernard dogs. A rac
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at of 800 jsantsers ages (Lie. ¥ , : ree Rent-A-Kids to demonstrate a ne-
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anta, and if it works here this summer, the sill Coraeby abe id Fa ihe ae a nine
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eee a ie sated oat ee ping who will be four in August, is th\daugh- ults sometimes don’t realize what is impor:s.
sacking, window washing, yard work, paint- tet of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rhodes of ‘0 YUnE Person. pene
under supervision, loading, unloading, stack- College Park. (Photo by Bill Grimes) = aes
Rent-A-Kid
Editor rary,part time work.
“Rent-A-Kid is going beautifully. Beyond all
ectations,”” Southsider Mrs. Joy Ruyle, ad-
listrator of the program, said in a recent in-
riew. Began last summer to help West End
3 earn more money for essentials and for
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Last year at the end of the program, Mrs
Ruyle’received a letter from one of the West
End Rent-A-Kids, thanking her for the job op-
portunities. He said that means a let to these
teenagers. ; ==
He had been able to buy shoes for all of his
brothers and sisters and himself. He paid his
locker fee at school. For the first time he had a
gym suit. ‘“Now I don’t feel different,” the
young boy wrote. “I don't mind going to school
this year.”
“By helping teemagers at the age of 14 and
15, we can keep them from dropping out of
school and joining the hard-core unemployed at
the age of 16, before their motivation is killed,”
Mrs. Ruyle said.
She estimates there are 30,000 kids in
the metro area who want and need employment.
There are not enowgh jobs for them. Industry
and business can’t absorb this many kids.
“Rent-A-Kid is elping to fill the gap.”’
The program is funded this summer by the
US Department of Labor and the Metro Atlanta
Commission on Crime and Juvenile Delinquen-
cy. “This is the first time the US Department of
‘
Labor has ever paid for any kind’of program for
kids younger than 16,”’ Joy said.
Presently job orders and the kids enrolled in
the program are about even. ‘‘We would like to
have double the number of job orders we now
have, Mrs. Ruyle said, ‘‘so before the summer
is over we can enroll the 2000 teenagers we
have slots for.’’ As job orders increase, enroll-
ment can be increased.
Joy is optimistic that 2000 will be en-
rolled in the program before summer ends. “‘If
Atlanta keeps cooperating as it is now, we will
get this many enrolled."’ She believes the only
way Rent-A-Kid could fail anywhere is if a city
is not open and warm in its reception of the pro-
gram as Atlanta is. '
The Optimsits Club in the metro area have
given the program a big boost. They have fur-
nished T-shirts with “‘Rent-A-Kid™ across the
front. After a teenager works eight hours on a
job in the program, he is eligible for one of the
shirts and wears it on his job.
A Rent-A-Kid orders are going through a
central office this year. The phone number to
eall is 577-5252: ‘
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