Honoring and celebrating Quibila A. Divine and The EARTHS, Inc. for 30 years of uplifting and nurturing parent-student relationships, and for working to support parental involvement in the education of their children.

Honoring and celebrating Quibila A. Divine and The EARTHS, Inc. for 30 years of uplifting and nurturing parent-student relationships, and for working to support parental involvement in the education of their children. WHEREAS, The Educational Advocates Reaching Today’s Hardworking Students, Inc., (EARTHS) was founded in 1994 and has been serving communities across North Philadelphia in the thirty years since then. Started by Quibila Divine in the basement of her sister, Sylvia Simms’s home, EARTHS has nurtured student and parent growth through programs providing education on the joys of reading to children, fun ways for parents and students to learn math together, and complete creative art projects; and WHEREAS, For each of their programs, EARTHS gives the parents and students the material involved, from free brooks to art supplies. The group’s mission is to foster positive interactions between parents and students, and to facilitate parental involvement in their child’s education. They have conducted hundreds of training sessions on issues ranging from Title 1 and school budget workshops to how to ask questions at report card conferences. More than 4,000 parents and students have benefitted from the information alongside the thousands of books and art supplies that The EARTHS has provided; and WHEREAS, Quibila and her family, including Sylvia and her daughters, LaSkeetia and Allegra Simms, have worked together to expand parent involvement and support nurturing educational en…