Word: pbha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soup kitchens will not reduce the number of homeless people, and tutoring programs cannot overcome racism, poverty, illiteracy, or environmental distruction. These are the issues which PBHA volunteers confront every day. Month after month, PBHers dive into the river and try to teach their pupils to swim. But, day in and day out, the stream of refugees and illiterates seems to grow longer...
...past eight years, the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) Committee on the Homeless has sponsored a shelter in the basement of the University Lutheran Church...
After the presentation, Director of Emergency Services Philip Mangano praised the PBHA program and others like it, but told the council that shelters are a stop-gap remedy for a problem caused by the shortage of affordable housing...
From daily tutoring programs to an undergraduate-coached basketball team, Harvard students spend a lot of time working with the high school students next-door. Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) deploys about 40 students regularly in its work with Rindge and Latin, and other groups such as the Housing and Neighborhood Development Program (HAND) send platoons of undergraduate volunteers...
...PBHA's 36 community service committees, CHANCE also provides a "big brother-big sister" program...