NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACT AREAS
Following registration and the Serve-a-thon Kick-off ceremony at City Hall Plaza, volunteers will travel by bus to the following service sites in the Roxbury and Jamaica Plain neighborhoods.
BROMLEY-HEATH/HENNIGAN, JAMAICA PLAIN
Many students at the Hennigan Elementary School, where a team of City Year Corps members work each day implementing City Year’s Whole School Whole Child initiative, live in the Bromley-Heath housing property, the first tenant owned and managed housing development in the area with over 3,000 tenants and 800 units. Neighboring the Hennigan are Jefferson Playground and Nira Rock Urban Wild, two green spaces often used for after school activities. Projects at the Hennigan will focus on the addition of many colorful and welcoming murals and the revitalization of outdoor classrooms and play spaces.
EGLESTON SQUARE, ROXBURY
At the crossing of Columbus Avenue and Washington Street is Egleston Square, a vibrant community of locally owned businesses, restaurants, housing developments, parks, and schools. Egleston Square will be the epicenter of City Year’s Serve-a-thon with Walnut Park, a Boston landmark locally known as the “Roundhouse”, which will be one of the largest Serve-a-thon sites in this area. City Year’s volunteers will paint literary themed murals to be donated to the Egleston Library and will brighten the exterior of Ellis Elementary School with new murals, playground graphics, and colorful flowers.
JACKSON SQUARE, JAMAICA PLAIN
Slightly north of Egleston Square on Columbus Avenue is the Dimock Center, New England’s first heath care center for women. Since its 1862 beginning, this organization has expanded to include countless health services, a community center, and a teen program. City Year will be leading many beautification and landscaping projects on the Dimock’s campus, as well as transforming neighboring sites including Marcella Park, Academy Homes, the Elizabeth Stone House, and working to transform a former dormitory into a new food pantry in partnership with Urban Edge, a local community development cooperative.
MALCOLM X PARK AREA, ROXBURY
Next year, the Higginson Elementary School in Roxbury will be closing and its students moving to the neighboring Lewis Middle School. City Year’s service project at the new Higginson-Lewis K-8 school will transform the current middle school-geared facility to welcome the wider age range of incoming students. Serve-a-thon 2009 will also be painting murals at an elderly home, as well as giving a face lift to Malcolm X Park, one of Boston’s most utilized parks.
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