Ndawi Eke of Fayetteville attended the 42nd annual Washington Youth Tour, an all-expense paid leadership experience sponsored by the electric membership corporations in Georgia, during her summer break. Selected by her local co-op, Coweta-Fayette EMC, she was among 104 high school students at the weeklong leadership event. As Georgia’s oldest leadership program for teens, the Washington Youth Tour is designed to teach students about U.S. history, government, and careers in public service.

Georgia’s youth delegates also had the chance to gain and offer first-hand insights into today’s most important issues through face-to-face visits with their congressional delegations on Capitol Hill including Senators Saxby Chambliss and Johnny Isakson and U.S. Representative Lynn Westmoreland.

Other highlights of the tour included visiting the Whitehouse, Smithsonian Institute, Holocaust museum, Ford’s Theater, Union Station, Arlington National Cemetery, the Supreme Court, the U.S. Capitol, Mount Vernon, Washington National Cathedral and a riverboat cruise.

Since 1964, Georgia’s EMCs have sponsored more than 40,000 high school students to spend a week in Washington, D.C. to see historic monuments and memorials and to watch history unfold on Capitol Hill.

Coweta-Fayette EMC is a consumer-owned cooperative providing electricity and related services to 70,000 consumer/members in Coweta, Fayette, Heard, South Fulton, Clayton, Spalding, Troup, and Meriwether counties.