CROPS Growing Rural youth and the IBC inner city youth will be in San Pierre, Indiana the week of July 16-24, 2011 to work on the Growing Rural – Youth Led Rural Development project, which we expect to become a national model to be replicated in other rural communities.
Each summer IBC reaches out through the Gloves with Love program. In 2009, six youth attended camp for the third year to help revitalize San Pierre, Indiana. The San Pierre project consisted of painting the interior of the Lions Club, painting a shed behind the Lions Club, replacing ceiling tiles, landscaping and raking 58 large trash bags of leaves at the park.
IBC participated in the 2008 and 2009 San Pierre Health Fair. The San Pierre Health Fair is sponsored by the CROPS Health Network Center. The object of the fair is to offer a free health community event to the residents in and around San Pierre and to gather information that will be used to provide future outreach services. The youth set up their exhibit of the Institute for Building Careers and the International Boxing Club. Boxercise demonstrations were provided by the youth for the health fair visitors.
In the summer of 2007, eight young athletes from the International Boxing Club of Toledo, Ohio and Coach Harry Cummins to teamed up with San Pierre youth on various service learning projects, including transforming the home of the San Pierre Lions Club. It’s an opportunity for both groups of youth to foster new friendships, learn new things, and make a big difference in their world.