Hero! Lebron James Opens Elementary School For At-Risk Children

Basketball star LeBron James and his foundation ‘LeBron James Family Foundation‘ in collaboration with the Akron (Ohio) Public Schools, on Sunday opened a new elementary school for at-risk children in his hometown. The sole aim of opening the I Promise School was to build a place where at-risk students can get an education and be given the opportunity to thrive despite difficult family and life situations. In a snippet of a video posted on the uninterrupted Instagram page, LeBron said: ‘I know these kids… Basically more than they know themselves, I’ve walked those streets, I rode the same bikes they ride on… I went through the same emotions – the good, the bad, the adversity…. Everything that these kids are going through – the drugs the violence, the guns everything that they are going through as kids I know’.

#IPROMISE school opens tomorrow. @kingjames #morethananathlete (Full message on IGTV).

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