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...BRYE Teen is one of five services that the 15-year-old BRYE program offers to the impoverished, mainly Vietnamese immigrant community of Dorchester. Other programs include tutoring, a classroom extension program, an eight-week summer program and a one-on-one mentoring program. The Teen program came about when Eskander and fellow Harvard student Christina M. Shuman ’03 wanted to serve the community beyond the original BRYE program, which targets kids ages 6 to 14. Dorchester is high crime area and gang activity is quite prevalent...
Tran, who directed the BRYE Summer Program last year, says domestic abuse, single parenthood, illiteracy and prostitution are common facts of life for the kids BRYE attempts to help. “I’m sure half of our kids get beaten, and many of our kids have older siblings dealing drugs,” says Tran. “The group of teenagers Mariam works with are extremely high risk and vulnerable to gang activity...
Eskander hopes that BRYE Teen will work to combat these hardships. “These are really great kids, and we don’t want to see them get into trouble.” One of the unique things about BRYE is that it is greatly accepted and appreciated in the community, which makes their job easier and more fulfilling...
Dorchester is not the only welcoming community, nor is BRYE the only program that has found a place in the greater Boston area. Programs such as Mission Hill and The Franklin I-O Summer Program have also integrated with great success. “We’ve had a long tradition of being a partner in the community,” said Christopher J. Vena ’05, a co-director of the Franklin program. “A big part of what we do is to try and establish relationships with community leaders. We have...
...BRYE Teen loads up into two PBHA buses and heads off to Castle Island, a large area of athletic fields and beaches on the Boston Harbor. Here Eskander and the other Harvard volunteers play volleyball with the teenagers. While BRYE’s impact, and the rest of the PBHA’s impact for that matter, is mostly measured qualitatively, there is quantitative evidence that the program is making an impact; two former BRYE students currently attend Harvard...