SMALL SCHOOL + PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT=

SUCCESS FOR YOUNG GIRLS!

AT WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
for GIRLS

“If kids are even barely passing and we can connect with their parents, we take them,” says Sister Mary bourdon in an article recently featured in The Washington Post. “We want the school to get inside the girls so they are not living in two worlds,” Bourdon says. “They get teased in their neighborhoods for wearing the uniform and carrying the books….” Washington Middle School for Girls is one of the nine non profit partners located at THEARC where Sister Mary is a familiar face.


WHAT IS THEARC?

Since its opening in 2005, Town Hall Education, Arts and Recreation Campus-THEARC- has become a national prototype combining social, cultural and health services. It is a $27 million 110,000 square foot center on 16.5 acres of land in Southeast Washington, DC. THEARC provides a daily safe haven for the children it serves, with a wide range of arts, educational, recreational, health programs and services. In addition there is a 365-seat theatre (the only theatre east of the Anacostia River) a regulation size gymnasium, computer lab, art gallery, state-of-the-art music and dance studios.

Nine non profit partners at THEARC have come together under one roof to help children. Your donations help each charity fulfil their missions. To learn more about Sister Mary and the Washington Middle School for Girls visit our website http://www.thearcdc.org/ or you may call 1-202-4-THEARC (1-202-484-3272).

Please see Turn Around Starts With Students written by Washington Post Metro columnist Marc Fisher for an in depth interview of Sister Mary and the Washington Middle School for Girls.

Selected for the 2008-2009 Catalogue for Philanthropy
“One of the best small charities in the greater Washington region”