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This is Alice, an organizer for Team AOC’s Homework Helpers program. As
you may remember, Homework Helpers started when the COVID-19 pandemic
forced New York City schools to shut down and students transitioned to
online learning.

After hearing from families who were struggling to juggle work, childcare,
and technology, Alexandria had an idea to do something pretty radical for
a congressional campaign (as most others were laser focused on just
getting elected): she started this free tutoring program to connect
volunteers from across the country with students from our community who
could use help with their homework, and two years later the program is
still going strong.

We’ve been crunching the numbers from our parent/guardian feedback surveys
and can confirm that the program has been a resounding success.

Here are some highlights:

* We’ve conducted 6,000+ one-on-one Homework Helper sessions
* Parents and guardians expressed a decrease in concern about their
children in the following areas: emotional well-being, fear of falling
behind in school, and readiness for the school year
* We served families who spoke the following languages at home:
Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, English, Mandarin, Spanish, and
Tibetan
* Parents and guardians expressed improvement in their children’s
excitement and confidence for learning
* We’ve heard directly from families about the impact of Homework
Helpers on their child’s well-being. A parent recently told us: “I am
so happy my daughter has a tutor to help her. This is also great for
my daughter’s mental health. She feels like her tutor is someone she
can talk to about school. Our students need that.” 

Because of volunteers with our program and the support from small-dollar
donors, this program has had a tremendous positive impact  in our
community.

So what’s next from here? Homework Helpers has started to expand into
other parts of New York State — Team AOC worked with [ [link removed] ]student organizers
at University of Buffalo to help them open their own Homework Helpers
chapter this past fall. Additionally, we’re focusing our efforts in 2023
on matching bilingual volunteers with migrant students who’ve just arrived
in New York City in order to provide them and their families with academic
and social-emotional support. 

Up until this point, we’ve been able to fund our Homework Helpers program
thanks to your generous support. Now, here’s what I need from you: if you
can afford it, I am asking you to make a contribution today so we can
expand our program and purchase classroom materials, fund field trips, and
create ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) training materials
for volunteers.

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We’ve decided to expand Homework Helpers because this mutual aid program
is at the core of what this movement is about: helping people. Our
campaign isn’t just active when it’s a voting year. We use your
contributions to help keep these programs available for our communities
year-round.

None of this would be possible if it weren’t for the community organizers
who put this together and everyday people who stepped up to volunteer a
few hours to tutor a student or chip in to our campaign or shop. So many
kids have seen leaps in their grades thanks to you and your
support.
Let’s keep this going. If you can be part of this work by contributing and
helping to expand this special program, here’s that link one more time:

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I’m so thankful for the people reading this email, the people who make up
this movement who are so full of heart and generosity. We’re doing
something great together.

Thank you again, and thank you for reading,

Alice Moye-Honeyman
Political Organizer
Team AOC

P.S. We’re currently working to match Spanish-speaking volunteers with
students who are asylum seekers in NYC. This school year, NYC schools have
enrolled more than 11,000+ new migrant students, many of whom are having
difficulty with significant language barriers. If you aren’t proficient in
Spanish, we could still use your help virtually from anywhere in the
country – [ [link removed] ]join one of our upcoming info sessions here to learn more!


 

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