Our Mission

The Mission of Changing the Perception Inc. is to transform the negative perceptions that are associated with certain aspects of Orangeburg, South Carolina’s community life. Those aspects entail the growth of positive youth based initiatives, the improvement of racial harmony, decreasing voter apathy, and improving the city’s health and environmental standards. We aim to implement this change through community service projects that emphasize racial solidarity, voter registration drives, and increasing public knowledge on health and environmental risk related factors.

Vision

To accomplish this mission we commit to these values and follow them in our pursuit of Orangeburg’s transformation.
»Community - Being able to work, communicate, and cooperate freely across organizational, territorial, and racial boundaries.
»Change- Working in order to change the city and its surrounding area for the better.
»Commitment- Committing to the issue at hand, consistently giving the effort that would result in change, and seeing the mission through to its fruition.

Logo

Sankofa (bird) is a symbol of a bird with his body facing forward and his head looking back. It symbolizes the fact that in order to progress you have to know from whence you came. Sankofa is an Akon word that means, "We must go back and reclaim the past so we can move forward; so we can understand why and how we came to be who we are today."

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