Join Manager of Youth Education, Marissa Gallant from Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA to learn more about the garden's successful youth refugee program. Tower Hill has been partnering with a local non-profit, the Worcester Refugee Assistance Project (WRAP) for the past 7 years to invite youth and adult refugees from Burma to the gardens to participate in horticultural and arts programming. Learn about the logistics of the partnership, wins and losses, and how the program began, has changed over the years, and how this partnership has sparked the creation of a new community initiative that will serve four more community groups representing underserved youth.
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Presenter:
Marissa Gallant, Manager of Youth Education, New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
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Education & Science Track sponsored by Lake|Flato;
Public Engagement Track sponsored by The Great Grow Along
Join Manager of Youth Education, Marissa Gallant from Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, MA to learn more about the garden's successful youth refugee program. Tower Hill has been partnering with a local non-profit, the Worcester Refugee Assistance Project (WRAP) for the past 7 years to invite youth and adult refugees from Burma to the gardens to participate in horticultural and arts programming. Learn about the logistics of the partnership, wins and losses, and how the program began, has changed over the years, and how this partnership has sparked the creation of a new community initiative that will serve four more community groups representing underserved youth.
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Presenter:
Marissa Gallant, Manager of Youth Education, New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
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Education & Science Track sponsored by Lake|Flato;
Public Engagement Track sponsored by The Great Grow Along
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