Atmore Teen Receives National Community Award

March 5, 2009

An Atmore teen has received a national honor in The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards – America’s largest youth recognition program based exclusively on volunteerism.

Alan Ash, 17, of Atmore, was named an Alabama state honoree.

Ash, a senior at Escambia Academy, launched a project to convert brightly colored T-shirts into hospital gowns for children. While visiting a friend stricken with brain cancer, Alan noticed how drab and uncomfortable hospital gowns looked. So, after his friend died, Alan worked with fellow members of his school’s Student Government Association to solicit donations of T-shirts, tailor them into gowns, and deliver 250 of the converted shirts to children at the Children’s Hospital of the Birmingham.

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2 Responses to “Atmore Teen Receives National Community Award”

  1. jeannine weeks on March 19th, 2009 10:24 pm

    i would like to contact this young man and learn more about the t-shirts-my cousin will enter children’s hosp on monday 3/23 to begin hodgkins treatments-i would like to get him a t-shirt or have one made-he is a huge alabama fan and yankees baseball fan-he goes to oak mountain to high school and is on the tennis team. i remember reading this aritcle in the paper but never thought i would need the info!!

  2. anonymous on March 5th, 2009 7:17 am

    I read about this kid in the Atmore Advance. If only we could all be so selfless and put the needs of others above our own. It is so sad that he lost his best friend to cancer, but the fact that he could turn it into something positive speaks bounds about his character! He is truly an inspiration to me!

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