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November 2014 Newsletter
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Thank You All! This Thanksgiving, we will sit down to eat a traditional Thanksgiving meal, but first pause to think of all we are thankful for. We are thankful for our Firewall students, our mentors, and our faithful supporters. Without your help, Firewall Centers would not be capable of impacting the lives of students…
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Gap Store Managers Serve Firewall Center Students
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September 30th, 2014 On Tuesday, Firewall’s Pompano Beach Middle School Center was pleased to host a group of Gap clothing stores’ District Managers. In town for a regional meeting, these managers took time out of their busy schedules to spend the afternoon inspiring our students. They brought blank t-shirts, paint, glitter, stencils, fabric markers,…
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September 2014 Newsletter
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FIREWALL IS AT FULL SPEED! It’s our biggest year yet with 7 centers up and running and serving almost 400 students! This year has been a big leap forward for our organization, and we couldn’t be more excited! It’s been a month since school started, and we are already so proud of all of…
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August 2014 Newsletter
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MEET THE FIREWALL TEAM! We want to take a second to welcome backall of our returning staff and give a big “welcome to the family”to all of our new team members! We can’t describe how excited we are for this new school year! There is so much excitement in the air and so many…
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Kathy
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Kathy has been a part of the Firewall program since she was in the 6th grade. Janeth Fernandez says “I still remember Kathy when she started Firewall. She would work so hard on her academics. She didn’t even speak English at the time, but had such a great desire to better herself that it…
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Annalyse
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Annalyse also came to Firewall in the 6th grade, but we have known her since she was in 4th grade when she would come to the Center every day to pick up her brother, Angelo. Janeth Fernandez remembers how “quiet and shy she was, but was always so interested in learning every chance she…
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Happy, happy happy!
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There’s a lot of talk about HAPPINESS these days… How to find happiness, the benefits of happiness, and what does it really mean to be HAPPY? I think we can all agree that even though TV commercials and movies tell us that success = happiness, it just isn’t the truth. No matter what lies…