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Hollow Drive DREAM Monthly Snapshot August 2015 Program Happenings and Highlights
DREAM’s annual Time of Wonder Sailing trip happened this month! Two youth from Hollow Drive went sailing off the coast of Maine for a week! This month DREAM welcomed three new AmeriCorps VISTA members to the team! Julia Dillavou, Kelsea Moulton, and Tiffany Trowbridge-Bernard will serve as Program Empowerment Directors with our other 10 programs throughout Vermont.
Participants Mentees
Mentors
Total: 12 Females: 5 Males: 7
Total: 19 Females: 9 Males: 10
Weekly Programming with Children
Summer community intern, Gautam Babu, brought youth for a day trip to Stowe. The teens boys spent the day hiking, bouldering, and swimming in a freezing mountain stream! Mentors had three DREAM Fridays this month. Mentors and mentees played games on the green, went to a petting zoo, and participated in a scavenger hunt around campus! For summer culminating, mentors brought all the mentees to the beach in Enfield, NH and had a BBQ. Summer community members, Mona Abdelghani and Gautam Babu held an end of summer BBQ and talent show at Northwoods. Three youth from Hollow Drive attended. Youth from Hollow Drive went raspberry picking in NH with Gautam Babu.
Thank you for your ongoing support of DREAM. If you would like additional or more detailed information, please contact me by email or by phone. DREAM big, Kylie Edwards Program Empowerment Director kylie@dreamprogram.org 802.338.8936
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