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*****NEXT FORUM -- JULY 12, 2008 For Young Women's Day-Health and Fitness Expo Then in August 23, 2008 AGAIN 3480 Seymour Avenue, Community Room Come early for the Get Active, Get Healthy Program. Geneva Johnson,
Shikeya Hopkins, Christina Johnson, Yougogirlgo@yahoogroups.com
You Go GirlGo!!
Location: 3480 Seymour Avenue, Community Center - Bronx NY 10469.
Call Geneva Or Shikeya at 718-881-1506 or email us at yougogirlgo@yahoogroups.com
Directions: take the number #5 train to Gun Hill road walk 4 blocks on Seymour Avenue to Community Center. #2 train, walk to Gun Hill Road take #30 bus to Seymour. Refreshments - Lite lunch will be served.
Door prizes and giveaways will always be given out. We have additional Baby Phat and Victoria Secret giveaways.
Special Thanks to Nestle, ISOPLUS HairCare, Youth Venture, American Eagle, Iyanla Vanzant, Do Something, MTV, Girls Inc. Check out their company/organizational links below.
You Go Girl Go engages at-risk young girls in panel discussions ranging from social in justice, lack of privilege, education, careers, health & Fitness, youth involvement and economic empowerment. The need is for at-risk young girls to be connected and see positive images of women, so they don’t get pregnant, drop out of school or become a victim of the street. Our core issues are teen pregnancy, violence, and self-esteem. We are also promoting self-love, self-respect and self-determination. Girls meet every month and speak with a panel of four women who have similar backgrounds, who have overcome the struggles of womanhood and finding their identity. Girls learn to discover their passion and develop it. The program empowers girls to strive for more out of life by hearing other women who have gone thru the same path they have traveled.
We bring together a support system for at-risk girls, through panel and round-table discussions. Girls will hear the successes and failures of professional women who have overcome hardships in their lives. Girls will be able network and to speak with these women after the event, creating possible mentoring relationships. The venture fosters good decision making for young girls. The venture and engages low-income minority girls residing in communities that are usually underserved and are at great risk for risky behaviors. The ages of the girls are from 8-14 Little Girls and Young Women15-25 who live in the New York City area, and/or attend New York City schools.
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YOUNG'S WOMEN'S DAY Health & Fitness, Career and Resource Expo Celebrating Womenhood
July 12, 2008 PELHAM BAY PARK
10:00am - 5:00pm
Music, Fun, Food, Entertinment
This year we are having our 1st Annual Young Women's Day at Pelham Bay Park, July 12th from 10:00am to 5:00pm Our plan is to celebrate womanhood and showcase young women who are successful and making a difference in life, career, community, and school. Young Women's Day will also be a source of information, and available resources for young women. We are looking for organizations that service Young Women, to bring information and outreach to the young women in the community. The event is FREE, you may bring your own table and chair to setup or alternately you can rent it (see attached form).
DOWNLOADABLE FORMS ARE BELOW Click on the link and download form and return to yougogirlgo@yahoogroups.com or yougogirlgo@yahoo.com
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Pelham Bay Park
Bruckner Boulevard, Eastchester, Hutchinson
Bronx
Acres: 2766.05
More than three times the size of Manhattan's Central Park, Pelham Bay Park is the City's largest park property. Visitors to the park enjoy miles of bridle paths and hiking trails, Orchard Beach, the Bartow-Pell Mansion, two golf courses, and a breathtaking 13-mile saltwater shoreline that hugs Long Island Sound. Athletes frequents its numerous fields and courts while children frolic in its playgrounds. Pelham Bay Park also has a wide and diverse range of plant and animal life and features prime locations to view one of nature’s most skillful hunters, the osprey.
Walk a mile or two on the land that has passed through the hands of the Siwanoy Indians, Ann Hutchinson, and the Continental Army, to name a few. Visit Pelham Bay Park today.
Pelham Bay ParkMore than three times the size of Manhattan’s Central Park, Pelham Bay Park is the City’s largest park property. Visitors to the park enjoy miles of bridle paths and hiking trails, Orchard Beach, the Bartow-Pell Mansion, two golf courses, and a breathtaking 13-mile saltwater shoreline that hugs the Long Island Sound.
The native Siwanoy Native Americans originally inhabited this area, attracted by the plentiful deer, turtle, and sturgeon. When the Dutch West India Company purchased the land from them in 1639, they termed the area "Vreedelandt," meaning land of freedom. However, after years of unsuccessful attempts to occupy the land, the Siwanoy still controlled the area. The most famous of these failed communities was the short-lived English colony founded by Anne Hutchinson in what is now the northwest corner of this park. Having fled religious persecution in Puritan Massachusetts, Hutchinson and most of her party were killed by Native Americans just a short time later in 1643. The nearby Hutchinson River bears her name.
Englishman Thomas Pell purchased 50,000 acres of land from the Siwanoy in 1654. Parkgoers can visit the site of the tree where he and Siwanoy leader Chief Wampage made their pact. In 1666, King Charles II chartered this land as part of the Manor of Pelham. During the Revolutionary War, Pell's land was part of the buffer between the British-held Manhattan and rebel-held Westchester. Hiding behind stone walls, 600 Massachusetts Patriots stopped the British and Hessian forces from making their way north from Rodman’s Neck. Remains of the walls can be seen in the Split Rock Golf Course. A plaque at Glover's Rock commemorates this battle at Pell Point.
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