Manayunk: North Light Community Center Staff Offers Support Programs For Local Families
North Light Community Center, located at 175 Green Lane, just off Main Street, has been a consistent presence in the neighborhood for more than 80 years, offering child care, raising money for scholarships for local kids and serving as a space for locals to convene. Irene Madrak (pictured below) is the executive director at North […]
Lesedi La Batho Daycare Center Uplifts Community
[vimeo 72469489] A special daycare center, located 16-miles north of Pretoria, South Africa, opened in 2011. This center in Mabopane, operated by Lesedi La Batho, not only provides childcare but also aims to empower and motivate local youth and the community. The center gives young mothers free services, teaches new mothers about proper baby care and […]
Spruce Hill: Plant Sale Aims to Help Childern Grow
With what she deemed her outside voice, Rachel Crossot stopped each passerby at Clark Park and delivered a five-second sales pitch for the Parent Infant Center’s plant sale. “All the flowers in my yard,” replied one man. “Of course, we know about it,” a woman said. Crossot, the center’s director of development and communications, didn’t […]
Southwest Philadelphia: Creating ‘Rising Stars’
“Learning starts at a young age. We try and create just what our name entails, Rising Stars,” said Bianca McCoy, supervisor of Rising Stars Childcare and Learning Center. Located at 6333 Woodland Ave. in Southwest Philadelphia, McCoy and her certified teaching staff not only provide daycare assistance but also a learning environment that is influential […]