THURSDAY JUNE 6, 2024
SOUTH BOSTON ONLINE
VOLUME XIX- ISSUE 74
Learning Center Opens for Celebrating Grandparents Boys and Girls Club AT&T Opens Connected Learning Center for Boys & Girls Clubs in South Boston to Help Bridge the Digital Divide
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T&T opened a ne w C on nec ted L ea rning Center inside the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston’s (BGCB) Edgerley Family South Boston Club to provide internet access and provide high-quality educational tools to residents who encounter barriers to online participation. AT&T’s $100,000 contribution to Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston will also provide for programming support. It’s estimated that 8% of households in Massachusetts do not have access to the internet or connected devices needed to fully participate in the online world, an issue known as the
digital divide. This Connected Learning Center is the first in New England and will help bridge that gap, specifically by serving participants of BGCB’s Ready to Work program, which supports academic and workforce readiness for students pursuing career and college goals. The ne w C on nec ted L e a r n i ng Center at Edgerley Family South Boston Club will serve as the Ready to Work headquarters for the more than 100 teens participating in the program. “Our youth members are the future of Boston, Chelsea, and the Commonwealth, and this investment in our young people’s futures is a tremendous example of how Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston continues to partner with organizations to be change agents in our communities,” Continued on Page 2
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he students at South B oston C at hol ic Academy and at the Early Childhood Center recently celebrated a special day with their wonderful Grandparents and Special Friends who had a chance to come and visit with
t heir gra ndchildren, fa mily and friends and to see the great colorf ul art work that our talented artists at South B oston C at hol ic A c ademy did at the Annual Art Show. Quoting our Principa l, Dr. Continued on Page 10