Join Hands East Saint Louis



The mission of Join Hands ESL is to build personal relationships and walk in solidarity with children and families of greater East St. Louis as they strive to achieve their full potential and overcome barriers of poverty and racial injustice. We accomplish our mission through our youth programming, education advocacy, mentoring programs and the Ubuntu Center for Peace.

 

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Our Focus


YOUTH PROGRAMMING

Relationships begin with our youth programming, encouraging positive self- image and self- esteem, and encouraging our young people to stay on the right track, do the right thing and focus on education. Volunteers act as role models and big brothers and big sisters, reflecting the beauty and worth of each child.

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THE DREAM PATH

Our Dream Path provides a pathway out of poverty. Consisting of our Family and Teen Mentoring, Alternative Education and Education Advocacy, the focus of the Dream Path is relationships, walking in solidarity with families, helping them overcome the many hurdles that poverty present to a child’s academic success.

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THE UBUNTU CENTER FOR PEACE

The Ubuntu Center is a place of peace, love and hospitality, an oasis in the midst of an often-violent area. It is now home to all Join Hands programs, morning coffee, a peace chapel, yoga and meditation. It is a resource for our families and children, and those in the neighborhood, as well as home to our administrative offices.

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