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About The Rainbow Center

The Gwendolyn Wilkes Rainbow Center is a multifaceted 501(C) 3 nonprofit organization with corporate offices in Columbus, Georgia. The Rainbow Center operates a diversity of community services with a goal of meeting the needs of underserved individuals.

The Center provided service to over 60,000 people locally, through our food and free clothing banks.

Our Child Care Center received honors as a "Center of Distinction" for educational achievement. The children generally come from homes where 90% are low income families.

The CCC has available transportation, physical and social activities and homework assistance for the before and after school care program.

An adult day care Treatment Respite Care Program of which all the participants are from low income families.

The ADTRCP includes a full time on-duty physican, medication management, physical therapy, recrational and social activities which includes various arts and crafts and field trips.

The ADTRCP aslo schedules transportation to and from the Center. Transient shelters and assitance for the homeless through the Columbus Homeless Task Force. These arms extend to provide all served needed to be empowered to start anew after being homeless ror jobless.

The Gwendolyn Wilkes Rainbow Center partners locally with the International Friendship Ministries, Urban League of Columbus, Columbs Children, Youth and Family Partnership, Muscogee County School System,West Central Georgia Area Agency on Aging and nationally with Feed the Children.

The Center has extended its arms to Nigeria, [Mission Nigeria], Haiti, and the Dominican Republic here the greatest problem is poverty, not starvation. In 2002 the Center shipped approximately 50,000 pounds of donated rice, beans and other foods to Nigeria, built an orphanage in Enugu, supported the building of the schools in Oyo State, supported a Crisis Center for women in Benu State, and supported two schools in Abuja. Dr. Johnson-Rodgers, the Center's Executive Director has also supplied medicines and many other essentials to Lagos State and other parts of Nigeria. Medicines and medical care was also provided for the people of Haiti, and food, clothing, and personal care items were donated to those in the Dominican Republic.