Word: outreaching
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...These women are actively reaching out for help," says Theresa A. Finn '89, who heads the South Boston Outreach Tutoring Program for women aiming to earn a high school Graduate Equivalency Degree (GED). "And when there's individualized attention, we can really help them out with their problems...
...area that has suffered from stereotypes of tough neighborhoods and inner city problems, South Boston does face real difficulties. In the Outreach program, "the women are mostly single parents from their 20s to 40s, usually with kids, and from disadvantaged backgrounds," says Finn. "Like in a lot of urban areas, they're trapped in a cycle of poverty. Sometimes they've had alcohol or drug problems themselves or in their family; some have dropped out of Boston schools, which often fail to meet their needs...Life just hasn't dealt them a good situation...
...Patti Duquette, a single mother with four sons from ages two to seven, the Outreach program was the only means of both going to school and taking care of her children...
...grease not just for diplomatic outreach but for South Yemen's attempts at bootstrap development. In 1987 Soviet geologists discovered a little of the black gold beneath the desert sands near Shabwa. When the first wells begin gushing in 1990, the area may produce up to 70,000 barrels a day. That small but steady output will bring $240 million a year into South Yemen's treasury...
Union organizers also used the party to make their "first act of outreach as a union"--a $2,000 donation to Phillips Brooks House's homeless shelter, which is run out of the Lutheran Church...