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During the last year Lee spends about 12 hours a week in Chinatown working at an after-school day care program with 15 to 20 children, referred there because of emotional problems similar to those described by Chin. "The kids that grow up in that environment get either really tough, or beat down," Lee says. "Some were really active and loud; others didn't talk at all. There were two kids there that didn't say anything since I had been there, which was a year. There was a third guy like that, but we got him to say something...
...Eliot House, are directed at youths who have the same basic problems, but exhibit them in less extreme ways. Involved in a kaleidoscope of projects, from drafting community redevelopment proposals to serving on the board of directors of a local health clinic, Wong spends most of his time in Chinatown with teenagers. When he is not working at a tutoring program run out of a neighborhood church, he takes groups of teenagers out of the city on camping trips. For the last two summers he has arranged for college students to receive work study grants in order to work...
...kids in Chinatown are disadvantaged educationally and recreationally," he says. "The public schools don't help them much with their language handicap, so they can't keep up academically. Chinatown is adjacent to the Combat Zone, and the Mass Turnpike runs right through the middle of it. They have little open space left for recreation...
...walk up the stairs to their apartment and the paint would come off in my hands. It is a very emotional experience for me. The anguish involved, the frustrations, the anger--the thrills." In contrast to Wong, whose efforts have covered the spectrum of social problems in Chinatown, Janet Moy '75 has concentrated her work on the health problems of the community. Last month she was elected to the executive board of the Boston Community Health Center. Moy, who will go to Tufts Medical School next year to be able to work in the Chinese community, began working...
...foreign-born parents have led her to medicine. 'They were going to this crummy doctor and I had to translate for them," she explains. "It made me really angry. If they had any kind of health education they wouldn't have used him. I'm going to work in Chinatown when I finish med school. Since I'm bilingual, if I worked elsewhere I would feel as though I would be wasting one of my talents when it is needed...