When the hundreds of kids, many of them at risk for various social problems, walk through the doors to have fun and learn at the inner-city Carver Center in Norwalk, they’ll be doors donated by Ring’s End Lumber of Darien.

So will the windows they look out of, many of the ceilings they play and study under, and the paint on the walls (inside and out) at the center, which aims to give kids not only a safe environment to have some fun and improve their studies, but also an inspirational one to keep them doing well in school and out of trouble.

Officials with the nonprofit say that Ring’s End has played such a crucial role in a campaign to refurbish the worn, 48-year-old George Washington Carver Center building that David Campbell, president and CEO of the company, will be given this year’s “Community-Builder Award” at the center’s annual fundraiser this June in Darien.

“He deserves it,” said Dick Whitcomb, a former headmaster of St. Luke’s School in New Canaan and now an active volunteer with the Carver Center. Whitcomb started a fundraising campaign for the organization to improve the building.