D’s Corner: “Goooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaal!”
….. the 2nd/3rd grade Summer Kids Club class shouts every time we recognize them for meeting our classroom goals of 1) Respecting Others 2) Respecting Self and 3) Respecting Materials. Similarly, every milestone we pass as an organization makes me want to...Summer Kids Club: TREASURE – Ask. Seek. Knock.
This was the theme (based on Luke 11:9) for our week at Passportkids! Camp June 29th -July 2nd. Our 14 students were on a hunt all week to seek and find treasures in God’s Kingdom. First, they learned that God’s Kingdom is not a physical place with boundaries and...Ayumame!
Though, it was four years ago, shortly after I moved into the neighborhood, I can still remember it very clearly today. “Ayumame, Chawn-yell-ya!” Veronica shouted, “Ayumame!” (Spanish translation – “Ayudame, Daniela, Ayudame!”; English translation – “Help me,...Summer 2011 Indigenous Leader: Brenda Polio
Thanks to the Casa Chiri newsletter readership and their generous responses, we were able to hire a second indigenous leader for summer 2011. Brenda Polio, nineteen and a mother of a beautiful two-year-old daughter, first came into our lives two and a half years ago...
We are a community of people “learning together to love our neighbors as ourselves” in a Latino neighborhood in Alexandria, Virginia.
As a faith-based Christian non-profit with a small staff and over 100 volunteers, we serve alongside more than 100 families and their children (1st-12th grades) each week through our community programs.