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ORLANDO, Fla. – Faced with the challenge of keeping children on track during the pandemic, local mentoring organizations had to come up with new ways to keep running.
Opened in 2006, the Parramore Kidz Zone has given thousands of children in Orlando a place to go to be kids and so much more.
Queona Jones was one of those kids.
“I found another home,” said Jones.
Jones first walked through the doors of the downtown rec center and into the Kidz Zone with her sister a decade ago.
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Parramore Kidz Zone hosts ceremony for college-bound graduating seniors
Parramore Kidz Zone is now expanding to three additional neighborhoods
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ORLANDO, Fla. – More than 40 students from the Parramore Kidz Zone graduated from the program this past Friday and right before they cross the stage for high school some are now reflecting on their journey.
“It feels like a chapter that you just been waiting to close and it’s here and you’re like finally,” Iana Hair said.
Hair sat down with News 6 alongside three other college-bound graduating seniors who say when they walk across the stage the significance is so important for their families.
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