Times Summer Camp Campaign
The Summer Camp Campaign is part of the Los Angeles Times Family Fund, a McCormick Foundation Fund.
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Kevin Ponce said he raised his grade-point average from “one-point-something” to a 3.5.
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Idalia Munoz recalled the day in ninth grade when she sat handcuffed in the back of a police car and saw her father’s pained expression as he arrived at school to pick her up.
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Despite all the discussion about female leadership and the professional success of women after the publication of Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 book, “Lean In,” the director of the girls camp at Camp Mariastella says female-focused summer programs remain rare.
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When Parkinson’s disease took greater hold of her mother last summer, 11-year-old Tania Santoscoy volunteered to stay home and care for her, forgoing the bumper pool, cooking classes and camp friends she’d come to expect during these sunshine-filled months.
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Djata Nyaawie plans to take the Advanced Placement physics course at Cate School in Carpinteria this fall.
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Gathered around a rectangular table one recent morning, 11-year-olds Anahi Bailon, Jasmine Martinez and Rolland Pascual and 10-year-old Roselin Villa groan in unison over the same topic: moving up into middle school.
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Nine-year-old Mark Lopez’s fingers flit across the pages of Dr. Seuss’ “The Cat in the Hat.”
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The walls of the compound stretch over an entire city block in South Los Angeles.
