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Canada is currently the president and CEO of the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families, where he has built a network of more than 40 "beacon schools" in New York--schools that stay open 17 hours a day to provide a safe haven for at-risk youth...
...traditional extracurricular activities, from basketball leagues to math clubs and choirs, have all but disappeared from inner-city schools. "If you're a child growing up in a poor community, your chances of being involved in an after-school activity are almost none," says Geoffrey Canada, president of the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families in New York City...
...founder of the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families in Harlem, a celebrated after school program, Canada said that when he launched the initiative to help inner city kids in Harlem 1987, he had no idea of the severity of the difficulties facing these children...
Canada's book, subtitled A Personal History of Violence in America, is based on extensive research in a score of major cities and his experience as the president of the Rheedlen Centers, he said...
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