The goal of this project is to provide a safe and free recreational educational summer program for children in the neighborhood. Most of the children come to the playgrounds because they are not enrolled in summer camps or some are in summer school, and need somewhere to go and enjoy their summer. We provide sports/game activities, arts & crafts, sprinklers, books, and board games for the children at 4 sites: 194th and Briggs Avenue, 180th Street and Webster Avenue, 196th Street and Bainbridge Avenue, and an on site playground/day camp at Walton Avenue. The Police Athletic League runs two other playstreet sites in collaboration with FBCS.
Bronx and Beyond Day Camp at Refuge House
This Day Camp is a combined cultural awareness and community service program designed to educate and instill leadership skills to 25 campers (ages 8-11) and 5 teenage counselors. The camp provides a safe and supportive avenue for learning and growing during the summer months. The program provides a full day alternative, at either a minimal or no-fee cost, to low income families searching for an alternative to seeing their children spend their summer months on unsafe streets, or locked in a apartment.
Each week campers will spend three days participating in special pre-arranged tours of cultural and arts institutions, universities, businesses, historical neighborhoods, and performing arts events. The remaining two days is spent in their neighborhoods, organizing and leading arts-and-crafts, sports, games, and plays for children at PAL playstreets and partaking in other forms of community service.
