In a surprise appearance at an a middle school assembly, filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry showed up to donate money to fund the after-school activities in the city’s schools.
After seeing an HBO segment about Mary Mulvany, a teacher at Finland Middle School who started a foundation to raise scholarship money for athletics and extra-curricular activities, Tyler Perry was moved and wanted to help out.
The schools lost the funding for their after-school activities when the voters failed to pass a tax in 2009. Many of the programs were revived, but at a cost that many of the students could not afford. Mary Mulvany’s foundation makes it possible for students to attend their extracurriculars.
Perry wanted more students to be able to afford their clubs and teams, and so he donated $100,000 to the Success Beyond the Classroom Foundation in the Southwestern School District in Ohio. He contacted Mulvany in January, and on Friday made an appearance at a school assembly to announce his donation and give the students an impromptu performance of his famous character, Madea.
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