The Employment Assistance Training Services (EATS), Inc., Community Development Program, is a non-profit organization that is designed to teach unemployed and underemployed individuals that live in blighted areas of cities and neglected communities, the applicable skills necessary to refurbish or demolish and rebuild homes for less-fortunate families within their own neighborhoods.

The purpose of EATS, Inc. is to reduce the welfare ranks and the crime rate by providing employment opportunities. Skilled craftsmen, i.e., carpenters, plumbers, electricians, roofers, drywall installers, bricklayers, painters, carpet installers will be available to teach welfare recipients and unemployed individuals within blighted communities how to completely renovate dilapidated city homes such as the one shown below. EATS, Inc. will welcome experienced retired or part-time Craftsmen with various trades and from different locations that would like to volunteer their time to teach the applicable construction skills. It is also the intent of EATS to provide financial income by way of a job and create a sense of pride to people who may be destitute and help them to afford a better way of life.

Calvin C. Williams, Sr., Ph.D., is the Founder and Executive Director of EATS, Inc. and the Cal-Tech Learning Center located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Dr. Williams also founded the former Give Opportunities Daily (GOD) Job Rehabilitation Program in 1972. Through the GOD Program, he visited many high schools, universities, and correctional centers to lecture, motivate and encourage students and inmates to prepare for successful careers. He encouraged many people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and discouraged many young adults from leading a life of crime.

Dr. Williams has been featured in many newspaper articles, national magazines, and appeared on numerous radio and television talk shows for his outstanding community involvement. It is his dream and major goal to someday acquire a large building within the Camden County area of New Jersey and in other cities with blighted areas throughout the USA, U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico, that would include classrooms and all the shop equipment necessary to teach the EATS Program recipients the applicable skills they will require in order to refurbish or rebuild homes and other properties within their communities.

EATS, Inc. is in dire need of financial support by way of contributions, donations, or a grant to get this program started. Any help will be appreciated. EATS depends solely on contributions, donations, and grants to subsidize the occupational training the program recipients will be required to have, in order to be qualified for employment. Training will be available for anyone (male or female) that are unemployed, on welfare, receiving minimal or no income. Williams said that he has observed great changes in people over the years that were destitute and had given up hope before someone or an organization like the G.O.D. Job Rehabilitation Program or the EATS, Inc. program provided them with a job, motivation, a sense of pride and self-esteem. As a result, they became self supportive and were able to contribute back to the communities much of what they earned and learned.

The EATS Program is not just about rebuilding dilapidated houses, it is about rebuilding lives, families and entire communities. If anyone would like to assist EATS to obtain a grant, or would like to make a financial contribution, please call: (856) 427-9500 or write to: EATS, Inc. – 102 Browning Lane – Building C – Cherry Hill, New Jersey 08003-3195.

Shown above, is an abandoned deteriorated building within a blighted area of a major City that can be refurbished by trained individuals from within the neighborhood. EATS, Inc. will provide the necessary hands-on training.