Josh – 2/4/10 – LES Girls Club

One Wednesday the third harry, Noel and I went to the Lower East Side Girls Club.  We have been contacting them for a while but it was our first time actually meeting in person.  The Lower East Side Girls Club is on East 1st street between 1st and 2nd avenue.  There mission is to give girls who are in bad situations with home life or school life “sisterhood”.  They don’t just take girls from the Lower East Side, there are girls from all over New York that go to their organization. They also have a sister organization further down south.

We walked down there and me the woman that runs the organization, Jenny Dembrow.  At first Jenny spoke to us about what the organization was all about and how it started.  She introduced us to her assistant, some members, and her mom and dad (they used to run the Girls Club and now work there).  We than sat down at a table and talked about what we wanted to do in our next four visits.  She came up with the idea that we could work on the Girls Club Walkathon (a fundraiser for the organization just like the AIDS Walk).  She told us what it was like and how we could help with it throughout our stay.  This picture was taken at last years walkathon (many people dress up and have fun with it):

After Jenny and her assistant showed us a couple of videos we took a walk with them to their cafe.  They have a couple of shops in the city that help raise money for their non-profit organization.  They have a cafe, a arts and crafts store, a gallery, and more.  We entered the Bowery Poetry Club and we met a couple of members from the organization working there.  The workers at the cafe talked to us about their experiences with the girls club for a while and than after i bought a water, we left.  This is what the Bowery Poetry Club looks like: