Written by HUECU | Jun 27, 2018 11:00:00 AM
This summer, over 1,000 children and teens throughout Greater Boston and Cambridge will attend a student-run summer camp sponsored by HUECU. For another consecutive year, HUECU made a generous donation to the Summer Urban Program (SUP) and attended the 15th Annual SUP Auction held at Radcliffe.
SUP is one of over 80 student-run programs of the Phillips Brooks Housing Association (PBHA) and is responsible for coordinating 12 summer camps serving more than 1,000 children and teens throughout Greater Boston and Cambridge.
Most of the summer camps offer mornings of academic enrichment, afternoons of educational field trips, and artistic, cultural, and service-learning workshops throughout the week, along with two overnight camping trips and a day-long final trip. Attendees come from low-income backgrounds in the Dorchester, Roxbury, South End, South Boston, Mission Hill, Chinatown, and Cambridge communities.
The auction featured a photobooth, festive food and drink, free on-site childcare provided by SUP directors, and several speeches made by graduating student volunteers.
The evening also honored Horace Small, founder and executive director of the Union of Minority Neighborhoods and The Mission Hill Fenway Neighborhood Trust, and a long-time supporter of PBHA’s Mission Hill summer camp.
Today PBHA is comprised of more than 85 programs, with over 1400 volunteers participating in a wide range of service activities.
As a not-for-profit, member-owned financial cooperative serving the community for nearly 80 years, we salute SUP’s mission to ensure that youth in Boston and Cambridge can attain the life skills needed to define, access, and achieve their own success in and beyond our communities.
To learn more about SUP or support their work, visit www.PBHA.org.