Homework Assistance

It’s time for school again!  Which means we have an amazing opportunity to serve the children in the International Refugee population by helping them understand and complete their homework.  This provides a unique means to really impact their lives tangibly, while also providing mentorship, friendship, and all those other intangibles that are so important!

We offer homework assistance every Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday from 5p.m. to 6p.m.  If you are interested in serving in this way, please contact kim@thesperoproject.com.

Celebrate Good Times, Come On

By now you’ve noticed I can’t resist cheesy titles to my posts.  Glad you’re still with me.  Can’t say I’d be so sacrificial myself.  

I just wanted to share the amount of excitement and anticipation I have leading up to tomorrow’s events.  The older kids from the Summer Program who were so great to help the younger kids all summer long are having their REWARD PARTY tomorrow afternoon!!!  They earned ‘clips’ all summer when they helped clean up, translate for younger kids, etc.  And, they don’t know it yet, but they’re going to be trading their clips for game tokens at Celebration Station.  Oh, yeah!  

I wanted to test the waters and make sure I wasn’t giving them a ‘lame’ prize for all their hard work, so I asked two kids of different ages what they thought of the idea and they were pretty excited.  Well, as excited as you CAN be for not knowing what in the world I was talking about.  But, a bunch of games in one location didn’t sound too shabby, I suppose. 

I CANNOT wait to see their faces when they walk in for the first time.  I know none of the kids have been to any place like it before.  And, as someone who takes a lot of things for granted, I am sure that this experience will help me appreciate how great it is to be a kid!  What a privilege it will be to see kids who’ve, until very recently, never been in a safe enough environment to just enjoy themselves do so with us tomorrow!