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Based on the WIT campus, the Mission Hill program is run mainly by students from Harvard and Wellesley, with a few volunteers from other Boston-area colleges...
...don’t come to the program, you just stay at home and play games. If you come to the program, you have fun and do homework like this,” one elementary school-aged Mission Hill participant says, snapping his fingers to indicate how efficiently he could complete work at MHASP...
Each Mission Hill child is paired with a college volunteer who assists them with homework, reads aloud to them, and plays games with them...
...sheer number of volunteers—MHASP strives for a one-on-one ratio between college volunteers and Mission Hill kids for every day—has contributed to the program’s longevity and continued strong presence in the world of after school volunteer programs...
...Evaluation of the program is a really big challenge in terms of who does that and finding people who are experienced in that area,” says Mission Hill School Principal Ayla Gavins, whose students participate in MHASP. “It is a huge amount of coordination and communication...