AAYC OFFICERS
CHINATOWN LDC
About Friends of Columbus Park
Why
build a Youth Center?
Establishing a youth center will give us a place to encourage teamwork, build leadership and provide a safe place for children to learn and have fun, develop programs & structured activities for our kids, organizations and community residents. Kids need a place to go, a place to relieve family pressures and stress, to have alternatives to drugs, gangs, unemployment and depression. That is why establishing a youth/community center is essential.
How are
we going to build a center?
Building
a center will take a lot of hard work and commitment, but it starts with one
person and then another and another. Without funding,
community, business and political support this idea is just a dream.
That is why all of you are so important. You can become a major player as
we spearhead this drive to establish a center in our community.
SHARING
A VISION
Imagine
a building, a facility in the heart of NY Chinatown: Promoting
a sense of community, pride, teamwork and history. Imagine at the
entrance a huge bronze wall that will have engraved the names of every
contributor/donor that has contributed to this center. What better way to honor
our history, contributors and members of our community. To have generations come
visit our center and see their relatives and friends named engraved on a wall
forever. Imagine, a facility that has Basketball Courts, a Full Size Pool,
Classrooms, Auditorium, Conference Rooms, Exercise Facilities, Training Rooms
etc. and seeing your kids and relatives using
them.
You
are all welcome to share our vision.
Recognizing that the future of our communities lies with our kids & that
structured recreational, cultural and educational activities & programs for
kids are important for community development. Being aware of our ethnicity
and our roles are crucial to the future social fabric of our communities
