LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Delta Foundation Inc. in the Portland neighborhood serves about 250 students a year, and they're in a bind, since it's the second time that they have been broken into this week.
Just after 10:30 p.m. Wednesday night, surveillance video showed a man walking in the hallway of the nonprofit.
He eventually makes his way into a door where the foundation said he stole Chromebooks, a tv, Bluetooth speaker and a PlayStation.
"Unfortunately they got to an area where some stuff is locked up and they took about 15 of our kids' laptops," Founder and CEO Wes Hinton said.
The nonprofit is a mentorship program that helps at-risk youth develop the tools they need to be successful not only academically, but socially and athletically as well according to their website.
But the after school program has a motto: nobody touches the court before the classroom. Homework and tutoring are a going to be a little different with the electronics gone.
"Considering that door was also kicked open it wouldn't shock me if we continued to take inventory and realize most stuff was missing," Hinton said.
This is the second time they've been burglarized this week.
The foundation has been posting this photo.
"There's bad apples everywhere, but this isn't the first time it's happened; but this is the first time it's directly affected the kids so much," said Hinton.
Students now have to share laptops during tutoring and homework time.
The program is in the process of expanding to the Newburg neighborhood and this most recent break-in didn't help as they are already stretched thin on supplies and electronics.
"For them to walk in and see all that stuff missing, the door kicked open, I'm sure it definitely set a negative effect," Hinton said.
He did file a police report and now he's looking for the public to help in anyway with donations.
"It's tough, like, last time it happened, we relied on insurance but the insurance didn't cover everything," Hinton said.
Donations can be made here or emailed to deltainc502@gmail.com.
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