Summer Reading Buddies at the Park in partnership with ACPS
Despite the high heat and unpredictable rain, Casa Chirilagua had a productive summer. On Tuesday and Thursday nights Mount Vernon Community School and Casa Chirilagua hosted a pilot program: “Reading Buddies at the Park.” The high community turnout on the first day...An Interchange of Inner Change
What happens when you take a group of white kids from small-town Illinois and mix them up with a group of first generation Central American immigrant urban kids from the DC Metro area (Chirilagua)? Quite honestly, we didn’t know the answer to this question but with...“Miss Sarah, what does justice mean?”
Cristóbal, a rising sixth grader, asked this question of one of our summer interns after reading and acting out the story of Jack and the Beanstalk during their tutoring session. Ironically, he had asked the very question that our interns had come to explore. For the...August Volunteer of the Month: Amy Kraft
Ringing through the room at the start of each morning before our summer reading program was a clear, encouraging, energetic voice – a teacher’s voice. Amy Kraft, a second-grade teacher in Fairfax, Virginia, doled out classroom savvy (a game of letter-sound hopscotch...WyldLife camp, from a student’s point of view
There is no doubt this year’s WyldLife camp was a memorable one. While we could tell you all the stories from the staff’s point of view, we’d rather hear from one of our students. “Wyldlife camp was a fun week full of adventures including:...
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.