PLANTED SEEDS

Our goals at Seeds of Hope Academy (our homeschool pod) is to give our students individualized education to help them academically catch up, build their confidence, give them opportunities and experiences that will prepare them for their future. We had 4 students that...

Weekly Pickleball hour, teaches our students a fun new sport, exercise, healthy competition, and it connects the community with our students. This has been a WIN/WIN for all. Our volunteers and students are learning so much from each other. We are so grateful to John...

What an amazing honor and experience our students were able to be a part of. This was a wonderful lesson for these children, To learn about our military, soldiers, aircraft and to personally know one of the TOP GUN pilots who is one of our amazing volunteers. We were...

Kids needed to be outside and exercising. With Covid these kids have been stuck in doors for over a year. So it was time to get outside. We were able to put 15 children on Flag Football team, 5 kids on club soccer teams, 1 child on a Pop Warner team. These kids had a...

Since Covid most children are doing zoom learning. Unfortunately for many of the children we volunteer with, zoom learning has been a huge challenge. From Internet issues, computers, being a newer English language learner, not having any private space to learn, having...

Over the last few years we have realized that the majority of kids that we volunteer with are extremely behind academically. On average 2-5 years. We offered tutoring but we realized for many of these kids they do not need tutoring but they need to be reeducated....

We were trying to find ways to get some of our students back to in person learning. We reached out to many private schools, as those were the only schools continuing to meet in person. We reached out to Fusion to see if they had any spots and scholarships available....

A few months ago, we met a dad of one of the boys we volunteer with. He is a legal refugee from Congo, and has been here almost 4 years. We talked to him about him coming to America. He said he is working 2 jobs, working over 80 hours a week and just surviving. We...