Non-Profit Founder Mikey Walker Honored With Anne Heyman Spirit Award

Hull resident Mikey Walker, founder of the Kerry Jon Walker Fund (KJWF) and Head of School at Hingham's Old Colony Montessori School, will be honored with the Anne Heyman Spirit Award at Rwanda's Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village (ASYV) benefit gala Village Time on Broadway on Monday, May 21, 6 pm, at the Edison Ballroom, 240 W. 47th Street, New York, NY.

ASYV's Village Time on Broadway is a stateside alumni event paralleling the community's joyful, weekly celebration of talent in its home community of Rwanda. The organization is a holistic living, learning and healing community for orphaned and vulnerable African youth. ASYV will present Walker with the Anne Heyman Spirit Award for her exceptional dedication to creating opportunities that allow Boston area urban youth to engage in mission trips to the Rwandan community in service to its young residents.

With a career dedicated to educating and advocating for children, Walker has served for more than two decades as Head of School at Hingham's Old Colony Montessori School, following teaching positions in both urban and suburban schools.

Founded in 2010, in memory of Walker's late son, The Kerry Jon Walker Fund focuses on a mission of enhancing the education of youth. Amongst its accomplishments, KJWF provided 3000 lbs. of books, maps and educational materials, as well as school uniforms, to village schools in Guinea, West Africa. The community ranks amongst the poorest in the world, and is home to the region's most deprived children.

KJWF provides financially challenged urban teen students the opportunity to create global objectivity and travel abroad in charitable service. This year, The Kerry Fund is preparing eight Boston students for a sixth mission trip to Rwanda, where they will serve 500 orphaned teenagers at ASYV. While providing service to this community abroad, the Boston teens, many never having never traveled out of the country, gain a new understanding of the developing world.

KJWF is also the proud recipient of a 2017 Cummings Foundation $100K for 100 Grant.

For more information about Village Time on Broadway or to purchase tickets, email megan@asticproductions.com or visit fundraise.asyv.org/events/-/e162265. To learn more about Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, visit asyv.org. To learn more or support the Kerry Jon Walker Fund, email mikey@thekerryfund.org, or visit thekerryfund.org.

About The Kerry Jon Walker Fund

The Kerry Jon Walker Fund, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping humanity and supporting those affected by poverty, promotes sustainable programs to improve health, education, and economic opportunity for those in need. The Kerry Fund's current mission programs provide financially challenged Boston teens with opportunities to engage in community service trips to aid orphaned teens at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda. The Kerry Fund is the proud recipient of a 2017 Cummings Foundation $100K for 100 Grant. To learn more or support the Kerry Jon Walker Fund, visit www.thekerryfund.org, or follow the Fund on Facebook.