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Each Mission Hill child is paired with a college volunteer who assists them with homework, reads aloud to them, and plays games with them.
The 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.
As for now, verbal feedback and informal volunteer reports indicate that kids involved in the program seem to be showing improvement, Guerrero says.
But because MHASP is run entirely by college students, it still struggles with the pitfalls of rapid volunteer and leadership turnover.
The name recognition of Mission Hill helps draw in a consistent and sufficient number of volunteers each year, overcoming the attrition problems facing many other volunteer organizations. But the rapid transitions of volunteers and leadership runs the risk of blurring the institutional history of the program.