Hope in the Bronx River by Maite Hernandez

Private Project

Hope in the Bronx River

Copyright Maite Hernandez 2024

Updated Oct 2017

Topics Adolescence, Community, Documentary, Education, Environment, Hope, Photojournalism

Hunts Point sits in the poorest District in New York. Public schools in the South Bronx are overcrowded and underfunded, resulting in discouraged students and contributing to an alarmingly low on-time graduation rate of just 35%. Exceptionally high student to teacher ratios make it difficult for schools to accommodate individual learning styles and challenges. This leads too many students in Hunts Point and surrounding neighborhoods to get caught in a cycle of failure starting with dropping out of high school and skipping college.
An after school program called Rocking the Boat has been creating over the years an oasis of woodworking sailing, restoring local urban waterways and revitalizing their community while creating better lives for themselves. In the last two years all of the students in this program were able to graduate from high school and college.
This weekend they will be helping in the assembly of the sailboats for the 2016 Louis Vuitton America's Cup World Series

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