Peaslee neighborhood center

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Peaslee neighborhood center

• Joe Sanzere
• Tim Obrien
• Karen Zapkowski

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Children at Peaslee get excited about learning
Mike Johnson
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Location

• 215 E 14th St
• Located in Over-The-Rhine off main street.
• Across the street from the School for the
  Creative and Performing Arts.

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The center

• Peaslee Neighborhood Center, rooted in the
  peoples struggle for the right of self
  determination, is a place that seeks to welcome
  and nurture the involvement of neighborhood folk
  in building a stronger, healthier community.
  Peaslee is a cultivator, a seed of hope, an
  encouraging environment where educational and
  cultural development can thrive and political
  awareness grow. (http//www.overtherhine.org/inde
  x.html)

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Over-The-Rhine

• Over-the-Rhine is Cincinnati's poorest
  neighborhood.
• 95 of the people live below the poverty level.
• Many people have come from Appalachia and the
  rural South.

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• 5,000 apartment buildings are abandoned or cannot
  be lived in.
• 95 of the landlords are not present.

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Services provided

• Support group for women- A support group that
  meets regularly to help women with their needs
  and problems.
• Educational- Peaslee Child Care Program teaches
  children from infants to preschool.

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Services provided

• The homework room-Where children ages 6-11 can go
  after school to get help with their homework from
  volunteers.
• The music room- The Over-the-Rhine Steel Drum
  Band, Piano and Xylophone Lessons

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Steel drum band

• Have sold over 500 copies of their cd.
• Have been seen at Reds games.
• Have also preformed at music hall.

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What we did

• At Peaslee we played with the children and fed
  them.
• Sometimes we read books to them and they loved
  being held up to the windows to see all of the
  school busses.
• We cleaned up after them help out around the
  school.

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Conclusion

• We had a great time going to Peaslee.
• We learned a lot about the children,
  Over-The-Rhine, and the people who live there.
• We hope we will be able to go to Peaslee or some
  place like it in the future.

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