Fairhill

Walking through the streets of Fairhill, one would confuse the place for a town in Latin America as the air is filled with the sound of bachata and the smell of pincho and bacalaito. Dubbed

https://vimeo.com/18641514] The yellow brick road in Philadelphia doesn’t lead to Oz. Instead, it leads to the Golden Block in Fairhill, the heart of the city’s Hispanic community on Fifth Street, stretching from Lehigh Avenue to

The Association of Dominican Businesses, which started in 2008, began with the intent of getting large enough so that it could attract investment bankers. But it realized that the greater benefit was so that its

https://vimeo.com/18393772] “We’re about to load up the van,” says Richard Finch, head of Impact Service’s Veterans Services. “You’ll want to get a shot of that.” A re-purposed eight-passenger van pulls into the shadow of Impact

https://vimeo.com/18393781] The sounds of hammers and talkative construction workers greet you as you enter the double doors of Hancock Manor. The towering building used to house a YMCA until it was transformed into Impact Service’s

https://vimeo.com/18391734] Laurisa Adorno-Camacho-Rivera, a self-proclaimed “motor mouth,” credits her father for getting her involved in the Congreso de Latinos Unidos after-school program, North Star, at Fairhill School. “He likes it a lot,” Adorno-Camacho-Rivera said with

https://vimeo.com/18393740] A dozen tiny hands shoot up in the air. Bodies shake anxiously in anticipation as their mouths emit sounds of “Ooh!” and “Memememe!” One such small body is chosen to answer. As his smile

https://vimeo.com/18391951] “You want to know what ‘WKG’ stands for?” said Dilson Mejia, a short, dark-haired seventh grader at Fairhill School. A classmate yanked on his gray hooded sweatshirt to quiet him. “It’s nothing,” he said.