Community Foundation launches fund to help remove Confederate statues

The Community Foundation launched its Harmony Enabled by Appropriate Location (HEAL) fund to help remove two Confederate statues in downtown Macon.

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The community foundation has launched its "harmony enabled by appropriate location fund" ... to help remove two confederate statues in downtown macon.

The initiative comes after macon-bibb commissioner approved a five million dollar project ... that included relocating the statues to rose hill cemetery.

Community foundation president kathryn dennis says... the organization has raised more than 140 thousand dollars.... to help the county move the statues.

She says the county's plan helps bring more residents together.

They are going to be in a safer place at whittle park and that's great," dennis said.

"moving these monuments is going to make our downtown what it really is which is a welcoming place for all.

As long as those two monuments are there, it is not welcoming.

Dennis says residents who dennis says dennis says residents who are looking to make a donation ... can visit their website c-f-c-g-a dot org.

Martin bell