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Software company brings gifts to DeKalb students

Avondale Elementary School students received gifts in December, hand-delivered by local software company Salesforce. (PHOTO COURTESY DEKALB COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT)
Avondale Elementary School students received gifts in December, hand-delivered by local software company Salesforce. (PHOTO COURTESY DEKALB COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT)
By Marlon A. Walker
Updated Jan 3, 2020

Some DeKalb County School District students got a surprise just before the winter break when a software company delivered gifts to students.

Avondale Elementary School partnered with Salesforce for its first Secret Snowman gift giveaway, officials said.

Dontae Andrews, the school’s principal, told district officials a parent connected to the software company helped develop the partnership.

According to the school district, each child had to write a letter in order to get a gift. On Dec. 18, a busload of Salesforce employees delivered the gifts to students.

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