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 New York, NY - Underprivileged elementary school children from Harlem (ages 9-12) will dig for fossils, learn about animal habitats and take long hikes with donors from the Inner-City Scholarship Fund (ICSF) on Thursday, August 21, 10:30 A.M. –NOON, 873 Boston Post Road (US Route 1), Rye, N.Y.
This is the first camp experience for many of these students.
Students attending the week-long camp, made possible by donors from the Inner-City Scholarship Fund and its “Be a Student’s Friend” program, will participate in hands-on experiments, learn about the environment, wild-life, water resources, and survival skills. The donors, who provided the tuition and transportation costs for the campers, are invited to a breakfast and a tour of the program that morning.
For the first time in its history, the Rye Nature Preserve Center has made its camp available to Inner-City Scholarship Fund students. Mary Raho Julian, ICSF’s Be a Student’s Friend sponsor and Chair of the Friends of Rye Nature Center created the program so that the students she and her family support could have the same summer opportunities as the children of Rye. She hopes to make this opportunity available to more students next year.
Inner-City Scholarship Fund supports more than 42,000 students (93% minority and 36% non-Catholic) in 107 inner-city Catholic schools in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island. 98% percent of ICSF high school seniors graduate and 97% go on to college.
DATE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 21
TIME: 10:30 A.M.-NOON
LOCATION: RYE NATURE PRESERVE CENTER
873 BOSTON POST ROAD (US ROUTE 1)
RYE, NEW YORK 10580
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