AKA hosts yard sale fundraiser
Published 4:20 pm Monday, April 1, 2019
The Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA) Sorority’s Selma-Dallas County Chapter, Zeta Eta Omega,
hosted a yard sale fundraiser as part of their 65th anniversary celebration this weekend.
The Zeta Eta Omega Chapter was charted on March 27, 1964 and has been making efforts to better the community ever since.
The Zeta Eta Omega area includes Dallas, Perry and Wilcox counties.
Selma Mayor Dario Melton recently signed a proclamation on Tuesday, March 26, honoring the chapter’s contribution in the Black Belt.
The yard sale took place from 9 a.m. to noon at the Ivy and Pearl Service Center on 515 Bell Road.
Tables were set up with men’s, women’s and children’s clothing as well as home goods and electronics in hopes that enough could be sold to raise money for AKA’s non-profit, Women and Youth Services of Selma.
Zeta Eta Omega chapter hopes that that the proceeds collected from Saturday’s yard sale will allow them to kick off a couple of projects that the group has planned.
The first one being a tutoring program for children and the second one being a clothing closet offering free clothes for those in need.
“We’re here to help better the community,” said AKA Zeta Eta Omega Chapter President Karen Brown. “One of our sorority’s mottos is ‘service all mankind’ so what better way to give back? We’re out here trying to help our own instead of outsourcing it.”
