Moving Onward and Upward After a Successful School Year
We made it through the 2013-2014 school year and we finished well! The past month has been filled with “last day of program” celebrations, volunteer appreciation activities, graduation and promotion ceremonies, year-end surveys, meetings with children, and a lot of...July 2014 Volunteer of the Month, Margaret Wohler: It’s in Her Nature
This month we would like to recognize the amazing Margaret Wohler as our volunteer of the month! As a professional Park Naturalist for Fairfax County, she has been a Godsend for our Kids Club excursions to Huntley Meadows Natural Park. As leader of these nature...Words of Encouragement at Kids Club Graduation Ceremony
Mariela sat at the picnic table, pen in hand. Sitting at the same picnic table, I saw her write a bit, stop, look around, write a little more, and ask a question. “Which way sounds better?” she would ask, and then say two versions of the same sentence. She...School Scores – Celebrating the End of the School Year in Fútbol Style
Hotdogs, hamburgers, brownies, and futbol–the perfect way to end a year of Teens Club and celebrate the youth completing a grade. In the late afternoon on June 20, Matt and Rachel Hoppe opened their home to a herd of middle school students for a Word Cup watch...
We are a community of people “learning together to love our neighbors as ourselves” in a Latino neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia.
As a faith-based Christian non-profit with a small staff and over 100 volunteers, we serve alongside more than 100 families and their children (1st-12th grades) each week through our community programs.