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Northwoods DREAM Monthly Snapshot April 2016 Program Happenings and Highlights
Mentors returned this month after spring break! Mentors began fundraising for their culminating trip to Canobie Lake Park. Mentors held their annual Experience Auction to raise money for culminating. Fellow students were invited to bid on services, items, and experiences provided by the mentors. They raised $1000! DREAM held its annual Teen Retreat! Teens were invited to participate in a service project at Billings Farms followed by an afternoon of rock climbing and pizza. Mentor Ross met up with his mentee Tyler for an evening of pizza in Hanover, games, and even a little reading! Mentors Rachel and Gautam took a small group to the movies on a Saturday. This month the mentors started fundraising for High Adventure 2017. So far the group has raised $2,950. We are happy to announce that DREAM will have Mona Abdelghani and Lael Daigle as AmeriCorps members this summer. They are both former mentees in the program and will be running summer programming in all three of the Dartmouth DREAM communities. We are thrilled to have both of them! Culminating happened this month! All three Dartmouth DREAM programs went to Canobie Lake Park for a fantastic day filled with roller coasters and other thrills!
Participants Mentees
Mentors
Total: 17
Total: 30
Weekly Programming with Children
This month there were four DREAM Fridays. Pairs went to Farm Fresh, an on campus farmers market where Earth Day activities were also taking place. Northwoods mentors and mentees met up with Hollow Drive matches and played sports!
Thank you for your ongoing support of DREAM. If you would like additional or more detailed information, please contact me by email or by phone. DREAM big, Kylie Edwards
Office: 30 Community Drive, South Burlington, VT | Mail: P.O. Box 361, Winooski, VT 05404 │ (802) 338-8979 | info@dreamprogram.org