ST. LOUIS — Hi-Tech Charities started out small more than 20 years ago by trying to help at-risk youths in Hamilton Heights, one of the roughest neighborhoods in north city. Based out of a church, they offered counseling and leadership training.
The nonprofit is still in the area. Now, it has its own headquarters at 5920 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, with locations in New York and rural Missouri. Hi-Tech Charities says it has also begun operations in West Africa, to help children, youths and women from extremely low-income families and communities.
"We go where the need is enormous," Francis Onukwue, president and founder of Hi-Tech Charities, said during a Feb. 9 grand opening to celebrate another expansion of services including a mobile health clinic. "That is what our mission is."
