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In a small but important step toward re-creating community during the COVID-19 pandemic, Florida A&M University students are pairing as one-on-one mentors with Oak Ridge Elementary School students.
Eight FAMU students from the school s Living Learning Community in the College of Education are beginning to work with Oak Ridge students virtually in the coming weeks.
The initiative has barely begun, but already administrators have high hopes of expanding to other schools in the district, FAMU s Ameenah Shakir said. Shakir is the director of the FAMU s Candidate Empowerment Center.
The partnership also follows in the wake of the FAMU football team adopting Bond Elementary School.
More than 5,800 people are still waiting on a COVID-19 vaccine from the Leon County Department of Health. We are not able to provide an approximate wait time for call backs and continue to ask our senior community for patience as we continue to manage a high volume of request forms, Pam Saulsby, Leon County health department spokeswoman, wrote in an email to the Tallahassee Democrat.
The local health department did not specify how many doses of the vaccine it currently has and noted that the vaccine doses it does receive are shared with local healthcare providers.
Saulsby added that if seniors miss a call from the health department or Leon County volunteers, their names remain on the department s master list. Volunteers will continue to call, but will not leave voicemails, she said.