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Playworks served with Habitat For Humanity on the National Day of Service to help repaint houses and build a fence around an East Oakland low-...
The Monthly
08/01/2010
An Oakland program helps kids play better at recess and teaches life skills at the same time.
When Jill Vialet was growing up in Washington, D.C. in the ’70s, she attended a recreation center every day after school. With her parents working full-time for the federal government, Vialet spent her afternoons there playing peewee football and basketball. She vividly remembers Clarence, a big African-American man in his 20s, who always made sure she got to play. (Read the full article)
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