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Foundation public relations director Tom Boyd said the youth services are critical.
“When the schools were closed, that didn’t mean we could just go home,” Boyd said. “We were more needed than ever before.”
A student struggling with math or reading in class may need even more help when learning remotely.
The foundation’s Magic Book Bus which brings reading resources to kids in under-served neighborhoods and offers educational resources to kids about to enter kindergarten couldn’t operate as usual this year.
Instead of picking up kids, socially distanced outdoor gatherings in parks were organized.
Other gatherings had to change, including YouthPower365’s popular youth soccer programs. To maintain social distancing, the teams were arranged like the players on a foosball table, and kids had to stay in their predetermined squares.