At Hopeworks, a job-training program helps turn young people’s dreams into digital skills | Philly Gives

For a quarter century, the organization — which has offices in Camden and Kensington — has helped students realize big aspirations. Today, it offers computer training with trauma-informed care.

How can someone even dare to hope?

Where is hope when home is friends’ couches, a different one every week, when depression hangs like a heavy cloud, when dinner is yet another package of ramen noodles, on sale, three for a dollar?

Where is that hope when, for Jamir Banks, 23, life felt like “being in a blender and being torn up, putting myself down and unable to get out of a rut. I felt like I was the scum of the earth.”

When, as with Jessalyn Ngo, 24, tears come while remembering being “in a really dark place. Having hope for the future was something that was hard for me because I was so focused on surviving.”

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808 Market St.,
Camden, NJ 08102
(856) 365-4673
Hopeworks is a 501(c)(3) non-for-profit organization, EIN: 31-1660671.
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