WHAT WEEKLY

Low-Income Students Explore Summer Beyond Baltimore

15 May 2013

★ GiveCorps

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Nobody wants to spend their summer days inside. Summer is a time for exploration, experience, and fun in the sun.

During the summer, many students gain enriching life experiences that support their academic lives – but that’s not the reality for many students living below the poverty line in Baltimore.

The Village Learning Place’s (VLP) Let’s Invest in Neighborhood Kids (LINK) Summer Program is designed to help our community’s most vulnerable students combat summer learning loss and enjoy exciting summer opportunities.

LINK Summer is a six-week program for pre-K through eighth grade students that provides free access to academic support and art opportunities, character development, health and fitness, and family and community involvement.

VLP is committed to broadening the students’ perspective on the world, whether by connecting to our natural environment and learning the importance of preserving it or exploring our state capital’s history and waterways.

Many of the students have never been outside their own neighborhoods and don’t even know that Baltimore sits on a body of water!

So VLP and GiveCorps have joined forces to fund weekly field trips for 100 students this summer.

Your gift of just $30 can provide transportation to two enriching trips for a Baltimore student. You can make it happen!

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