Good Samaritan Foundation Training and Outreach Center
Why today and what it will mean for our students' future?
"We cannot provide all our young people with idyllic
childhoods, as much as we would like to do so. But we can—and we
must—provide them with the minimum requirements they need to grow up into
self-supporting and contributing members of society. We do this by keeping
the Five Promises."
General Colin L. Powell, USA
Anacostia, located in Southeast Washington D.C., has come to epitomize
the crime-ravaged, economically troubled communities across urban America
that have become home to many of our poverty-stricken. While The Good
Samaritan Foundation cannot single-handedly eliminate the factors that
lead to these conditions, we endeavor to serve as a change agent in the
mission to lessen the suffering in this community.
The future site of The Good Samaritan Foundation Anacostia Training
and Outreach Center, located at 2405 Martin Luther King Avenue in
Southeast Washington, D.C., will strengthen our infrastructure and bring
us closer to assisting these families. In doing so, the Foundation seeks
to achieve the Five Promises of America's Promise.
- Ongoing relationships
with caring adults
- Safe places with
structured activities during non-school hours
- Healthy start and future
- Marketable skills through
effective education
- Opportunities to give
back through community service
We are excited to announce that with the completion of the first
Training and Outreach Center, the Foundation will be able to serve all
Five Promises. The Training Center will be a full-service student center,
where young adults can go to study hall, surf the World Wide Web in the
Power Up computer lab, or have a healthy after school snack.
The future site of the Training Center requires significant
renovations. Because of the generosity of our corporate
sponsors—Accenture, Clark Construction, the Freedom Forum, Association of
Builders and Contractors, Ford Foundation, and Equalfooting.com, we are
able to take the first steps towards making the Training Center a
reality. Once the first Training Center is completed, we hope to provide
centers throughout the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, in
neighborhoods where there is a great need for the Foundation's services.
You and your organization also can help fulfill our vision for the
Training Center by becoming a corporate sponsor. For more details on how
you can support the Training and Outreach Center, please e-mail gsfstaff@gsf-dc.org.
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