Hopes from Big Sunday: A Better LA
Here are more stories and hopes from Big Sunday Weekend, where our Community Listeners went to more than a dozen volunteer project sites to meet new neighbors and discover their stories! Today, we take you into South Central Los Angeles to People for Community Improvement (PCI), a youth outreach center dedicated to enriching the lives of hundreds of inner city Angelinos. PCI focuses on gang intervention, mediation, and rehabilitation, along with dozens of programs for local neighborhood kids including sports programs, field trips, retreats, mentorship, and counseling. Through these basic,...
Read MoreHopes from Big Sunday: Inner-City Arts
May 1-2, 2010 was the 11th Annual Big Sunday Weekend—two amazing days of community service projects throughout the Los Angeles and Southern California area that has grown to become the largest event like it in the United States! Our Community Listeners went to more than a dozen sites to meet new neighbors, hear their stories, see communities serving together, and, of course, to listen to their hopes. Today, take a look at these stories our Community Listener Sarah discovered at Inner-City Arts, an “oasis of learning, achievement and creativity in the heart of Skid Row, and a vital...
Read More“That’s A Big Question.”
On April 18th, we trained 40+ young adults from Christian Assembly Church in Eagle Rock, California as Community Listeners. For just over an hour, this group walked around several neighborhoods in Glendale, California and heard hopes for family, health, success, and children. Read more about their experience in our...
Read More“It’s The Little Things”
These hopes were collected on Saturday, February 19, 2010 on Olvera Street—a historic neighborhood of Los Angeles that marks the very spot where the pueblo of LA actually began. The street itself is a romanticized Mexican marketplace with shops, kiosks, and cafes featuring all sorts of colorful crafts, snacks, drinks, and souvenirs. The small corridor is packed daily with school groups, tourists, and Downtown LA locals who stop by for a bite to eat. We actually got a chance to take Jason (featured at the end of the video) to lunch at Subway after our interview. He told us that he’s...
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