Help Us Become Better!
The HUBB Empowerment Center Completion Drive
Leader
Kimi Wei
Location
135 Prince Street, Newark Newark, NJ 07410
About the project
FP YouthOutcry staff, interns, volunteers, Board members, community residents and businesses of Newark are pitching in to raise funds to complete and equip The HUBB (Help Us Become Better) Empowerment Center and we need your help too. This will allow us to triple the number of urban Newark youth we serve, add job training and mentoring programs, establish a food pantry/clothing closet and expand the scope of support we offer to adult community members.
The HUBB now also serves as the support and storage center for the summer camp we operate in partnership with the Newark Housing Authority and for community events we hold throughout the year.
The Steps
Why we‘re doing it
Learn more about FP YouthOutcry at our website http://theHUBBclub.org
FP serves the youth and families of Newark to help break the cycle of systemic poverty and community violence that too many of our youth fall victim to.
"Nearly half of Newark's 72,000 children — 44% in 2012 — were living in poverty" compared with the state wide average of 15% (1, 2). Our programs are designed to support Newark children with creative educational programming that supplements their school experience and leads to increased prospects for school and career success (3) and recreational programs that keep youth engaged in safe and fun activities. We provide expanded support to families through adult reading and financial literacy workshops because the "National Institute for Literacy ranks Newark as having the fifth highest rate of illiteracy in the nation, with 52% of adults 17-years or older categorized as functionally illiterate" (4) and we believe that parents need support themselves in order to best support their children. Across New Jersey 1,151,890 people live in food-insecure households and as the state's largest city Newark is home to many of them.
- Newark Kids Count 2014 http://acnj.org/downloads/2014_02_01_NewarkCityReport.pdf
- https://tabletotable.org/feeding-nj/
- http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/18/what-poor-children-need-in-school/
- City of Newark website http://www.ci.newark.nj.us/readbelieve/