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Community Concerns:


 * 1) Orphans/Foster Children
 * 2) Children and Poverty
 * 3) Homeless Shelters

[|Peaslee Neighborhood Center] Marci, Kari, Logan, and Jesse choose Peaslee Neighborhood Center.

The reason we chose Peaslee Nieghborhood Center is because we wanted to address all three of our concerns and we felt that this group was the one of the only ones that did so. We hope we can actually interact with these kids instead of just donating money, and that will make a real difference in their lives as well as in ours. Our goal is to show the kids that love and compassion exist in this world, and we want to show this to them firsthand by building relationships. Kids at this age group (6 weeks to 5 years old) don't have the power to put themselves on their feet yet, and we want to make sure we prepare them for life. Our group feels that the children of Peaslee Neighborhood Center need alot of attention because they live in the inner city, and that is where all the crime and violence occurs. All these children know is poverty and homelessness, and we want to show them that there is more to life. As you can see, Peaslee Neighborhood Center seems to address all three of our concerns perfectly, so we would like to give it a try.

We chose Peaslee Neighborhood Center because the charity spends 85% of its income on programs, 13% for administrative purposes, and 2% on fundraising for the youth. We liked this charity group because it is inner city and could use help rather than a larger charity. Based upon the information on their website, it appears this charities goal is to mentor the young children and help them rather then just provide them with a home and other necessities. On the BBB this organization meets all the of the 20 requirements. One of the main reasons we chose this group compared to other group is because when we would look at other groups and we would see they have really nice centers and not many opportunities to where we felt we could help. When we looked at the pictures from Peaslee Neighborhood Center and realized they aren't the richest center but they seem to care a lot about their kids. They seem like a very genuine group, and it is also an inner city group which we feel like it would be more beneficial to our group. This group seems like it has a lot of needs rather than needs that were posted on other websites. It seemed to our group that a lot of other agencies had a "wish list" of jobs for volunteers and we didn't like that. We didn't want to do one specific job, we would like to do multiple jobs with our agency and actually provide all sorts of needs to the kids. With Peaslee Neighboorhood Center we as a group feel like we would have a lot of leeway with this group and be able to not only teach and help the kids but let them teach us some things about what they have expierenced in their lives.

Not only does this group provide homes for children from 6 weeks old to 5 years old they also have many programs that seem to be very beneficial to the kids. We also chose this group because the programs they have look very interesting and meet all needs of the children. They have programs that include African Drumming and Piano Lessons. This program is very cool because we would be the ones learning and experiance a different culture. To our group not only is helping the kids of Over the Rhine is a big focus but also letting them teach us some lessons. They also use the main floor to provide service learning for the kids, which is always good for the kids. This charity also does a lot of outreaches for example on their website, they recently went to a play called "Sideways Stories from Wayside." First of all this shows that the people in charge of this agency care a lot about their kids and they take time out to take the kids out instead of just always having them in the center. But second of all when they went to this play they had a fundraiser that asked for gently used books to be donated. This charity does many other outreaches and our group would love to be apart of those.