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<p class="fontlook"><B>2009 Barnyard Summer Enrichment Program</B>
 

<p class="fontlook"><I>The Barnyard Community Center in Coconut Grove, Florida (Miami) serves inner city African American families in the West Grove through an After School Program; a Summer Camp; Court Diversionary Program for Juvenile Offenders; Parenting Workshops, Life Skills Programs; Computer Lab and other programs. </I>

 

<p class="fontlook">This is the ninth summer for Carrollton’s award-winning, community service project which has been developed cooperatively with Coconut Grove Cares, Inc.(CGC). The goal is to provide enrichment activities and to build bridges of communication and understanding among cultural groups in Miami. Participants work on cooperative projects which involve critical thinking and the separation of opinions from factual information. This year the program consists of 40 - 50 young children from CGC’s summer camp program at The Barnyard, as well as many volunteers acting as teachers, leading enrichment lessons and counseling the campers. Various lessons have focused on the traditions of different cultures and have promoted “hands-on” participation by the children in activities such as learning dances, tasting foods, and singing songs. In addition, cooperative projects have also been part of the curriculum, which involve children, teen-agers and adults from different cultural groups working together within a supportive environment.

 

 




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