HOUSTON — As Your Education Station, KHOU 11 is committed to doing its part to help Houston-area students. For that reason, every year since 2019, KHOU 11 has selected an elementary school to adopt. Through our adopt-a-school program, our staff makes a commitment to dedicate our time, efforts, and resources to support the school’s students, faculty, and parents. This year John G. Osborne Elementary, located in the historical residential area known as Acres Homes, was the school we selected. With 299 PreK through 5th grade students enrolled, this small but mighty school has been a landmark in the North Houston community since 1961.
As part of our 2023 school adoption, KHOU 11 surprised Osborne’s principal, Dr. Oluwafolakemi Dimandja with an $11,000 grant from the TEGNA Foundation. The TEGNA Foundation is a corporate foundation sponsored by KHOU 11’s parent company, TEGNA Inc. Through its community grant program, the TEGNA Foundation serves the greater good of its communities by supporting nonprofit activities where they do business. The Foundation is proud to fund programs that promote and celebrate the diversity of the communities they serve.
Dr. Dimandja was extremely grateful and excited about using these funds to benefit her students. With 99 percent of Osborne Elementary’s student population economically disadvantaged, she hopes to use the grant funds towards experiential programs outside of the classroom. She wants her students to have exposure to experiences, places, and extracurricular activities that, often times, their families cannot afford.