UNLR and AVAW initiates a Summer Youth Leadership and Gardening Program.

Thanks to the support of the Roxbury Trust Fund, Boston Youth Environmental Network and ABCD, UNLR and AVAW are able to employ 13 youth living in Roxbury. The youth have been learning about everything from financial literacy, goal setting, self defense, to building and maintaining gardens. The youth will be putting on an end of the summer job celebration on August 15th. Everyone is invited to see what the kids have been working on all summer.

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UNLR and AVAW was awarded the Brownsfield Site grant valued at $75,000 for mold assessment of the Community Center.

UNLR and AVAW was awarded the Brownsfield Site grant valued at $75,000 for mold assessment of the Community Center.

In June 2009, UNLR’s future community center located on 90 Windsor was selected as a Brownsfield site. The Environmental Protection Agency E.P.A., established the Brownsfield site Grant in 1994 to provide technical assistance to assess and clean out hazardous material to sustainably reusable sites. The EPA has expressed how exited they are to work with UNLR and AVAW on the community center. First phase of assessment has been approved and UNLR will be notified in late August for the clean out process. This is the first phase toward construction.