Healthy Aging All Summer Long
by Ricki Henderson & Meg Licht
Each Wednesday morning this summer, Meg Licht, myself and a group of ten
other tireless Experience Corps members gather in Franklin Park to
partake in some exercise and easy conversation. Along the two mile trek
around the park's public golf course, we ...click here to read more! |
We're teaming up July
18th-24th with Fajitas & 'Ritas to host a
Charity Week.
It's simple...
- Enjoy
dinner and/or
drinks during this week and Fajitas & 'Ritas will donate
20% of the tab to GI.
- Bring along this invitation, fill it in, and give it to your
server at the
end of your meal.
Fajitas & 'Ritas is located at 25 West Street, near Boston Common & Park Street T Station. Check out their menu by visiting their website: www.fajitasandritas.com |
2009-2010 By the Numbers
- 12 sites in Boston and Revere
- 309 Experience Corps members
- 12 full-time AmeriCorps State members
- 13 AmeriCorps *VISTAs
- These volunteers served a combined 102,371 hours
- Reaching 2,165 children twice a week
 Raymond Birt, ECM at Blackstone Elementary School, and Yanaris Figueroa. |
AmeriCorps Alumni Spotlight...Josh Hardester
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serving with us as an AmeriCorps State member at Mission Hill Elementary School in 2007-2008, Josh joined the Peace Corps and is serving in a rural Indigenous community of Costa Rica. He facilitates
anti-violence workshops in the high school, and works with teens in
after school music and art programs. He's also currently raising funds and
finalizing the details for a national soccer tournament among the eight
remaining indigenous tribes in Costa Rica. Speaking of soccer...Josh will be back in Boston for a visit soon and hopes to watch the final World Cup game with any Alumni who would like to join him! Email him (joshua.hardester@gmail.com) for more information.
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