A Safe Place Child Enrichment Centers provide valuable educational experiences to students with hands-on learning, small classroom sizes, and Kimberly’s visionary garden-based curriculum. Students tend to the community garden daily, where they learn not just about how to grow and care for plants, but also about nutrition, and all this while spending most of their day outside.
The garden also helps provide fresh produce to students and families in need. Ms. Shaw’s ingenuity in creating a non-traditional learning space has helped students and their families make healthy lifestyle changes. Self-Help has a long relationship with Ms. Shaw, and in 2023 provided financing to support the acquisition of Shaw’s third center in Raleigh. We honor Kimberly for pursuing her dreams of making positive change, and her leadership in providing meaningful education.