Our mission is to promote resilience among Zuni youth, so they will grow into strong and healthy adults who are connected with Zuni traditions.
We pursue our mission by providing Zuni youth with positive role models, enriching programs, and nurturing spaces that build on the strengths of their community.
Your donation increases the access Zuni youth have to enriching programs, healthy spaces, and encouraging mentors.
Invested into the Zuni community since 2009, with a focus on helping Zuni youth lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
Of our youth report improved health as a result of participating in our programs.
Youth served annually, across 10 distinct ZYEP programs. 80% of ZYEP youth participate in more than one ZYEP program per year.
Of our youth participant’s parents report that participation improved their child’s overall health.
*data derived from post-program surveys conducted with Zuni youth and Zuni families
When Dmitry Shack was 13 years old, he already knew what he wanted to do when he got older: become a Summer Camp counselor for the Zuni Youth Enrichment Project. He had participated in the program as a child, and he remembered how much fun he’d had with the teenage counselors who made every day special.He was ready to help create those same experiences for a new generation of Zuni children, but he had a problem. ZYEP’s counselors had to be at least 16 years old, which meant Dmitry would have to wait three years before he could apply.Each summer, he watched social media announcements introducing the new counselors. And he imagined the day when he would appear in the same photographs. “I was like, oh, one day that’s gonna be me,” he recalls.Read more of his story here!www.zyep.org/dmitry/
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