Bears WR Allen Robinson working to keep food Within Reach for Chicago kids
The Chicago wide receiver joined Yahoo Sports Draft Live to explain how he's utilized his Within Reach Foundation to help families in need during the current pandemic. Allen received a grant for his foundation through the NFL's Inspire Change initiative.
Video Transcript
- On here to the Las Vegas Raiders at pick 19. But before we get there, this would have been the Chicago Bears when-- this is where they would be where the Chicago Bears were on the board, except the selection went to the Raiders in exchange for Khalil Mack back in 2018.
Mack's current teammate, wide receiver Allen Robinson, is making a difference with the foundation called the Within Reach Foundation, which works with low-income and inner-city kids in Chicago. He explained how he's adjusted its goals during the pandemic that we're all facing.
ALLEN ROBINSON: Yes, well, normally, we focus on the education within the inner-city schools in Chicago. You know, we work a lot with the Boys and Girls Clubs. We do back-to-school events. We do Christmas events and things like that. We launched our first reading room last year, I believe, in April. You know, so that's really what we focus on is the education part of it.
But you know, with the pandemic happening, you know, with kids not being able to go to school, with different people's families, you know, getting laid off from their job and then having to provide more meals and stuff for their family, what we did was we partnered with the Greater Chicago Food Depository. So we launched a campaign that $12 would donate about 20 pounds of food to a family.
We set our goal pretty early on, which got reached pretty quickly. Teammates of mine pitched in. My head coach pitched in. You know, a lot of people who just have any knowledge of what I'm doing, everybody pitched in. It was a real community effort.
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- All right, great to see these players stepping up in these difficult times. If you want to learn more about Allen's foundation, check out AllenRobinson12.org.
