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The arts can be a source of joy in a child’s day, and also come in handy for memorizing times tables.
In “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” Betty Smith’s 1943 autobiographical novel about growing up poor in the early 20th century, the public school that the heroine attends is a pretty bleak place. But “there was a great golden glory lasting a half-hour each week when Mr. Morton came to Francie’s room to teach music.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/04/well/family/using-arts-education-to-help-other-lessons-stick.html
The Summer meals program is looking for volunteers to help with activities at the New Haven Public School Food Services free summer meal mobile sites. At these sites from Jun 29 until Aug 18 either free meals, lunch or supper, is provided to any child aged eighteen or younger. Over 40% of New Haven's children live in poverty and while school is out these free meals are a way for children to get healthy food.We need volunteers to run fun activities to attract the children to the site(s) so they can get food when the food truck or bus arrives. While the food trucks tend to stay in an area for about 30 mins, programming can be longer. Activities can include music, art, games, reading, etc.
If you are interested in lending your talents, please contact Cathy Davies (cathy.davies@foodcorps.org) or call 858 231 0274.
While there are twenty sites throughout New Haven, the following are the most in need of activities
Place Address TIME
Brookside Apartments 1 Shirley Way SUPPER 3:45p-4:15pm
DeGale Field County & Goffe Streets SUPPER 4:45p-5:00pm
Diamond ridge apartments 174 Diamond St SUPPER 5:00-5:30pm
Eastern Circle 25 Bouchet Lane SUPPER 3:45p-4:15pm
Fulton & Farron Corner LUNCH 1:00-1:30pm
Kensington park Kensington ave SUPPER 6:00-6:30pm
Stetson library 197 Dixwell Ave SUPPER: 5:00-5:30pm
Trowbridge Square Park 159 Carlisle St. & Cedar LUNCH: 12:30pm-1:00pm
West Rock Academy 311 Valley Street SUPPER: 4:25pm-4:45pm
Greetings, everybody. In the wake of the hurricane, I feel there is a great opportunity to help bring together those in our community. One such tool for fostering community growth is SHARE Haven. SHARE Haven is The Greater New Haven area's Time Bank. With time banking, people offer their services and skills to one another, recording their time to be used as a currency with others in the network. With so many people without power and/or internet at the moment, it makes for some interesting challenges and opportunities for the network. If you currently have internet, I suggest signing up at http://community.timebanks.org/index.php and posting some offers and requests for yourself, and neighbors without internet, to your profile. Additionally, if internet is inconvenient at the moment, please call me, Adam Wascholl, at 860-216-7291 and I'll do my best to match you up with somebody complementing your offer/request. In addition to the SHARE Haven site, you can sign up for the Google Group (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sharehaven) which will also be used to help connect people. Hopefully, we'll be able to learn a thing or two from this situation, and help strengthen the tools used to connect one another.
