For every hour of vacation an employee uses to volunteer at the school, the Lottery matches that hour, up to 20 hours per school year. The program tailors each lesson to the student's needs. Employees volunteer one hour per week to tutor students. Each tutor works with two students for half an hour each week. The most popular program among employees and students is the Lunch Buddy mentoring program.
Employees spend one lunch hour per week, or every other week, with their student buddies.
The purpose of the Lunch Buddy program is to provide positive adult role models for at-risk students. Employees bring lunch for their students and spend time together talking about what is happening in the children's lives, playing games, reading or working on crafts. Lottery employees have held fund raisers to install dry marker boards and purchased overhead projectors and a new school sign. In 1996, the Lottery, in cooperation with the Detweiler Foundation, installed a computer lab with educational software at Del Rios. The lab was created from reconditioned personal computers.