The Almanac – Gift cards often get a bad rap for being impersonal by letting the giver take the easy way out. Don’t tell that to Jim Guffey. The executive director of Bethel Park-based South Hills Interfaith Movement wants to see stacks of the cards coming in to his organization,…...
For these families in Pittsburgh, teens’ summer jobs make more than just pocket money
PRI’s The World – Sixteen-year-old Vishal Kharel is spending the summer restoring trails in a large county park in Pittsburgh’s southern suburbs. As he digs a ditch, he describes his actions to the other teenagers on the crew. He’s part of the program called Learn and Earn in Pittsburgh. It’s designed…...
Volunteers help kids build bicycles at Heinz Field
Tribune-Review – Nuriah Blandchard, 10, of McKees Rocks, works on building her bike with volunteer Jenna Stearns (off camera), 21, of South Oakland, during the United Way of Southwestern PA’s fitUnited Build-A-Bike challenge at Heinz Field on the North Shore on Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016. 100 local students paired up…...
Free meals available for children in the summer
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Getting a free and nutritious lunch is something that many needy children can count on during the school year. In the summer, however, it can be a different story. In southwestern Pennsylvania, 43 percent of school-age children, or more than 139,000, are eligible for free or reduced-price…...
Whitehall refugees staging fashion show to share native cultures
Tribune-Review —Daruka Nyuon strutted across the dreary, cluttered porch at her Whitehall housing complex in her vibrant purple, orange and green dashiki, a traditional African dress worn in her Sudanese homeland. As she flipped her hair to the side and let out a confident grin, her friends shouted with approval:…...
Refugees excited about growing own produce in SHIM garden in Whitehall
Tribune-Review —Rows of lettuce, spinach, beans and pepper seedlings fill several large wooden crates in a vacant parking lot behind the Whitehall Presbyterian Church. The new garden is a pleasant reminder of home for the large population of refugees hailing from Bhutan and Myanmar now living in Whitehall and Baldwin…...
