Clubs Coming To Help
Big Bad Bullies: Chayzée Smith’s Story
Everyday, millions of innocent kids are bullied around their school. They are pushed around, physically abused, and can’t do anything about it. The bystanders around them decide not to help either. The daily routine is the same: Get to school quickly and get out even faster, to avoid those kids. The thing is, that they don’t tell anyone, or get help. This is what it was like for elementary student, Chayzée Smith, except worse.
Usually, Chayzée would leave quickly and run home as fast as he could, sometimes though, he would try to take a chance, and stay for basketball or table tennis at the school, but “the violence of the neighborhood always found its way into the after school program”
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The Boys and Girls Club is an after school program that took in many individuals like Chayzée, and helped expand their character to become a better person through fun activities. The Boys and Girls Club helped Chayzée to develop confidence and character through activities like arts and crafts, basketball, and tutoring. Since then, he has been part of the club for 11 years, and today, he’s a counselor for young kids in elementary schools. "My experience at the Keenan-Stahl Club taught me how to not only be great, but how to care about others along my journey” …show more content…
Dating back all the way to 1860, this club has grown into more. In the small city of Hartford, Conneticut, there was a group of boys that lead shabby lives on the streets. With no one to go to, they wandered, bullying and taking out anger on others, trying to act cool. But with every man comes a small part of little boy in them. This is how Elizabeth Hammersly and her sisters got to the kids, knowing that their life was not a good one.
They started a club known as the Dashaway Club or the Good Will Boys Club by inviting the group of boys to discuss their problems and to make it better. Realizing that they could, the three adult sisters wanted to prove that even tough street boys could be nice like anybody else. Today, the club has grown into so much more.