Among Fayette

grantees are the Association of Village PRIDE, Fayette County Community

Schools, Fayette Samaritans Inc., Fayette Senior Services Inc., Fayette

Youth Protection Homes Inc., Joseph Sams School and the Visiting Nurse

Health System.

Providing children

with safe, structured, supervised activities during the summer vacation

is the aim of SPOT (Special People of Tomorrow), the Fayette Community

Schools program being aided by United Way funding.

The funding

"enables us to have a high ratio of teachers or care givers to students,

one to three students" said Jim Pittman, director of community education.

"In some cases, it's one on one, and we have 40 to 50 kids in each

session," he said, adding that the program costs $190 per students,

plus transportation costs.

Application

forms provide space for parents to state if they need financial aid. "Thanks

to United Way grants, we aer able to honor every request," said Pittman.

Begining July

1, United Way funds will be paid to the programs, 435 of them metro-wide

provided by 246 organizations.

Of the United

Way's $69.5 million budget, $12.8 million is designated by donors for

specific agencies. The organizaiton also will spend $6.8 million, 8 percent,

on administation and fund-raising costs, and it's estimated that another

8 percent of the $82.5 million pledged in 2000 will go unpaid.

For information

on United Way, visit www.unitedwayatl.org .

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