Homeless Children's Education Fund: Creating a learning center (photo story)

Creating an HCEF Learning Center and Resource Library

The first question is always this one:
What space can we afford to give over
to a Learning Center and Resource Library?

In one residential facility it was the lounge and TV area.

That meant some major reconfiguring:
walling off a space; adding security windows and a door.

Sometimes, however, as in a Learning Center and Resource Library recently constructed, it's just a matter of changing the function of a room. Bright colors and child-sized furniture are a good start.

Soon there will be a computer at each of the now empty workstations

as well as books and art supplies to fill shelves like these with adventure, fantasy, exploration, challenge, the world, and the neighborhood.

And that day comes:

The computers and printers are installed. The several bookcases are filled with books. The room is now truly a center of learning – for children of all ages and also for their moms.

The Homeless Children's Education Fund is a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization with United Way Donor Option #963315. Donations are tax-deductible in accordance with IRS rules and regulations. The official registration and financial information of the Homeless Children's Education Fund may be obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of State by calling toll free within Pennsylvania, 1-800-732-0999. Registration does not imply endorsement.

revised 8/9/08