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Taylor has been a volunteer with the all-student-run MHASP since her freshman year, and her confidence in directing the restless students shows...
...relationships that you make with the kids are what makes the programs the most satisfying,” says Jennifer E. Graham ’08, a former coordinator and current counselor for MHASP...
...can’t just go in to fix what you think is a problem,” says Jennifer E. Graham ’08, a former coordinator and current counselor for PBHA’s Mission Hill After School Program (MHASP), which serves up to 50 children from two neighboring housing developments in Roxbury...
...MHASP for its part, stresses the importance of forming relationships within the commnity beyond the project they advertise. Counselors meet their students in the afternoons at the project’s playground, and work with them for several hours at a nearby college. To round off the day, the counselors walk the children home, speaking to MHASP’s goals of expanding the volunteers’ duties pastjust teaching...
...Harvard students come from families with median incomes in the six figures, according to the admissions office, which contrasts to $27,133—and a 27.1 percent poverty level—in Roxbury—where MHASP operates. And Chinatown—where Harvard students can volunteer to work with the elderly, teenagers, and children as part of programs run by the Chinatown committee—has a median income of $14,829 and poverty level of 37 percent...