https://vimeo.com/17931160] Sixty-two-year-old Fran McDonald sits anxiously at her computer with her white binder full of handouts scattered with her own notes as she waits for class to start. “Me and Excel are having a ball,” [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/20107842] Not many people would suspect that America’s first male saint would be buried in a neighborhood church on the corner of Fifth and Girard, but it is this famous bishop that has brought some international [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/19938679] The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that approximately 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV, and 21 percent of those people do not know they are infected. The CDC also predicts that [continue reading…]
The United Minds of the Future (UMF) is a non-profit group based in Nicetown. It does not have a formal facility but operate out of the H.E.R.O. Community Center, located at 3439 N. 17th St. [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/20008672] With its large stonewalls and windows peering down upon the almost deserted street, Hannah House Inc. seems almost out of place. On a street some distance from the business district in Fairhill, the looming [continue reading…]
Hannah House Inc., located at 2831 N. Hutchison St. in Fairhill, has been helping women for over 20 years. It has made efforts to accommodate women who have been incarcerated, who are on pre-release from [continue reading…]
Food Central, a community Spanish corner store located on Diamond and 17th streets caters to the North Central neighborhood of Philadelphia. With merengue music bursting through the speakers, Food Central offers traditional Spanish dishes along [continue reading…]
https://vimeo.com/20015668] Every weekday afternoon, there are 60 kids running around the halls of the Hunting Park Christian Academy. Rowdy relay races and dodge ball faceoffs in the basement produce enough screams and cheers to echo [continue reading…]
The Greater Philadelphia Asian Social Service Center recently devised a plan to help children who need optical care. After teaming up with La Salle University, both institutions constructed a program to provide uninsured children with [continue reading…]
The block is reminiscent of news footage from the streets of a war zone, but it’s not an international war zone. This is Kensington. Nearly a month after a four-alarm fire at Second and Somerset [continue reading…]
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