This just in from Everybody Wins!: Former Atlanta Falcons defensive back “Big Play” Ray Buchanan, will challenge 250 students at Centennial Place Elementary School to improve reading skills at an event on Thursday, Jan., 28, at 1:30 p.m. The event is in conjunction January being National Mentoring Month. Buchanan and Everybody Wins! Atlanta — one of Atlanta’s most unique mentoring organizations — in encouraging at-risk youth to reach for their dreams and that reading can help them succeed not just in school but in life.
Buchanan will read a popular children’s book to the group of 250 children from grades 2 through 5. Afterward, Buchanan will take questions from the children about his football career and why and how learning to read helped him succeed as a professional athlete and individual.