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Jomoeri Geddie of Boulevard Homes Boys & Girls Club is lowered after completing a path to the top on a climbing wall at the U.S. National Whitewater Center on Wednesday. November is North Carolina's Nonprofit Awareness month, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center gave the Belmont Avenue, Boulevard Homes, Dillehay Courts, and Marsh Road chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte a climbing experience. Approximately 40 youths, between 9 and 17 years old participated in the event. The hope is to provide a fun experience, one they can remember, and one that encourages stepping out and achieving in a different way. This was the first time the center has coordinated to offer the event, which it stated was a way of being a service to the community, and also part of their mission to promote healthier living. DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com

Students in several chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte use the climbing wall facility at the U.S. National Whitewater Center on Wednesday afternoon. November is North Carolina's Nonprofit Awareness month, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center gave the Belmont Avenue, Boulevard Homes, Dillehay Courts, and Marsh Road chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte a climbing experience. Approximately 40 youths, between 9 and 17 years old participated in the event. The hope is to provide a fun experience, one they can remember, and one that encourages stepping out and achieving in a different way. This was the first time the center has coordinated to offer the event, which it stated was a way of being a service to the community, and also part of their mission to promote healthier living. DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com

Travone Maye (left) and Jomoeri Geddie of Boulevard Homes Boys & Girls Club race each other up paths on the climbing wall at the U.S. National Whitewater Center on Wednesday. November is North Carolina's Nonprofit Awareness month, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center gave the Belmont Avenue, Boulevard Homes, Dillehay Courts, and Marsh Road chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte a climbing experience. Approximately 40 youths, between 9 and 17 years old participated in the event. The hope is to provide a fun experience, one they can remember, and one that encourages stepping out and achieving in a different way. This was the first time the center has coordinated to offer the event, which it stated was a way of being a service to the community, and also part of their mission to promote healthier living. DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com

Travone Maye (center) of Boulevard Homes Boys & Girls Club,smiles and looks up after climbing a path on the climbing wall at the U.S. National Whitewater Center on Wednesday. November is North Carolina's Nonprofit Awareness month, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center gave the Belmont Avenue, Boulevard Homes, Dillehay Courts, and Marsh Road chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte a climbing experience. Approximately 40 youths, between 9 and 17 years old participated in the event. The hope is to provide a fun experience, one they can remember, and one that encourages stepping out and achieving in a different way. This was the first time the center has coordinated to offer the event, which it stated was a way of being a service to the community, and also part of their mission to promote healthier living. DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com

Calicia Hasty (center) of Boulevard Homes Boys & Girls Club, and other members of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte climb up paths on the climbing wall at the U.S. National Whitewater Center on Wednesday. November is North Carolina's Nonprofit Awareness month, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center gave the Belmont Avenue, Boulevard Homes, Dillehay Courts, and Marsh Road chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte a climbing experience. The hope is to provide a fun experience, one they can remember, and one that encourages stepping out and achieving in a different way. This was the first time the center has coordinated to offer the event, which it stated was a way of being a service to the community, and also part of their mission to promote healthier living. DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com

Members of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte climb up paths on the climbing wall, as other members wit their turns, at the U.S. National Whitewater Center on Wednesday. November is North Carolina's Nonprofit Awareness month, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center gave the Belmont Avenue, Boulevard Homes, Dillehay Courts, and Marsh Road chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte a climbing experience. The hope is to provide a fun experience, one they can remember, and one that encourages stepping out and achieving in a different way. This was the first time the center has coordinated to offer the event, which it stated was a way of being a service to the community, and also part of their mission to promote healthier living. DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com

Terrell Berry of the marsh Road Boys & Girls Club looks back at the other students as he advances up the climbing wall at the U.S. National Whitewater Center on Wednesday. November is North Carolina's Nonprofit Awareness month, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center gave the Belmont Avenue, Boulevard Homes, Dillehay Courts, and Marsh Road chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte a climbing experience. Approximately 40 youths, between 9 and 17 years old participated in the event. The hope is to provide a fun experience, one they can remember, and one that encourages stepping out and achieving in a different way. This was the first time the center has coordinated to offer the event, which it stated was a way of being a service to the community, and also part of their mission to promote healthier living. DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com

Janessa Hamilton of Boulevard Homes Boys & Girls Club takes her turn on a climbing wall at the U.S. National Whitewater Center on Wednesday. November is North Carolina's Nonprofit Awareness month, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center gave the Belmont Avenue, Boulevard Homes, Dillehay Courts, and Marsh Road chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte a climbing experience. Approximately 40 youths, between 9 and 17 years old participated in the event. The hope is to provide a fun experience, one they can remember, and one that encourages stepping out and achieving in a different way. This was the first time the center has coordinated to offer the event, which it stated was a way of being a service to the community, and also part of their mission to promote healthier living. DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com

Jomoeri Geddie (center) from the Boulevard Homes chapter of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte, climbs up a path on the climbing wall at the U.S. National Whitewater Center on Wednesday. November is North Carolina's Nonprofit Awareness month, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center gave four chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte a climbing experience. The hope is to provide a fun experience, one they can remember, and one that encourages stepping out and achieving in a different way. DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com

Club members and leaders watch cheer fellow members as they take their turns on a climbing wall at the U.S. National Whitewater Center on Wednesday. November is North Carolina's Nonprofit Awareness month, and the U.S. National Whitewater Center gave the Belmont Avenue, Boulevard Homes, Dillehay Courts, and Marsh Road chapters of the Boys & Girls Club of Charlotte a climbing experience. Approximately 40 youths, between 9 and 17 years old participated in the event. The hope is to provide a fun experience, one they can remember, and one that encourages stepping out and achieving in a different way. This was the first time the center has coordinated to offer the event, which it stated was a way of being a service to the community, and also part of their mission to promote healthier living. DAVID T. FOSTER III-dtfoster@charlotteobserver.com