The Boys and Girls Club was first founded in Connecticut in 1860, now with over 4,000 locations nationwide as well as Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands along with domestic and international military bases; over 4.8 million boys and girls have been served. They serve nine different communities in San Francisco. I currently volunteer at the center in the Tenderloin.
The Boys and Girls Club was established to provide a safe sheltered place for children in underprivileged communities. Their mission: "To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens."
This semester we do more technologically targeted volunteering than typical volunteers. We have set up a little mini tutoring session for the kids about how to use the computers, specifically the dangers and precautions to take on the internet. As B&G recently received new computers, we have installed software to maintain them against spyware; along with parental software to prevent inappropriate websites from appearing while the kids are on the internet. We have future plans of instructing the old kids how to use Microsoft Word and Powerpoint as it will be useful to them in school.
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