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...youths, aged 8 to 13, will be drawn form Roosevelt Towers, a state housing project in East Cambridge where PBH volunteers have been working for the past year and a half...
...PBH received an $8000 grant from the Boston Permanent Charity Fund and will use part of it to pay six students now working as volunteers in the project to stay in the City over the summer and run the camp. Campers will also be asked to pay $2 a week to defray costs. Volunteers from the Summer School and from Cambridge will aid the six paid workers in managing the camp...
Slightly more than 100 volunteers currently work in Roosevelt Towers. The program, PBH's largest, has generally been well-received by both project real-dents and City officials. Volunteers have concentrated this year on youth-oriented projects--tutoring children and organizing both athletic contests and trips to different parts of the metropolitans area...
With money from the grant, PBH will be able to pay a professional consultant to work 20 hours a week, instead of the present 10 hours. Because the consultant will be able to spend more time talking with volunteers, the program will be able to expand next year by about 30 people...
Hosea Williams, director of SCOPE, the summer project organized by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, will speak at 10 a.m. today in the Winthrop House Junior Common Room. Jane Dowell, a representative of the Ecumenical Voluntary Service, will be at PBH from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. today to discuss summer projects in civil rights and other areas...