It is worth noting that there are several common labels for this group of students, such as underprivileged, at-risk, in-need, marginalized, and disadvantaged.
The program, which was created in the 1970s, offers hundreds of thousands of children from underprivileged and at-risk communities the opportunity to play in youth orchestras throughout the country, and each state in Venezuela has at least one professional youth orchestra.
Peters was one of three dozen youngsters between the ages of 10 and 18 who had been transported from New York City to Sterling Forest one evening last week as part of Chill, a national, nonprofit learn-to-snowboard program for underprivileged and at-risk inner-city children.
The case has attracted widespread media coverage, as Sandusky was one of the most notable assistant football coaches in the country and the founder of The Second Mile, a nonprofit charity for underprivileged and at-risk youth.
These included Lindsay Anderson's O Dreamland (1953) and Every Day Except Christmas 19577), dealing respectively with popular entertainments at the seaside funfair and the sterling qualities of the Covent Garden porter; Tony Richardson and Karel Reisz's Momma Don't Allow (1955) and Reisz's We Are The Lambeth Boys (1958), both observing underprivileged youth at a loose end and at play.
The scholarship program asks potentials to commit to at least 100 hours of volunteer service helping to mentoring underprivileged youth at tech education nonprofits including All Star Code, Black Girls Code, CodeNow, Coderdojo and ScriptEd.
He spent lots of money -- $650,000 one year in Miami -- to play Shaq-a-Claus for underprivileged children at Christmas.
In Boston, as elsewhere, she had become involved in charity work, helping out underprivileged families at Christmastime.
For now, her mission is teaching art therapy classes for the Department of Veterans Affairs and providing art supplies and projects for underprivileged children at her local recreation center.
Later this summer, Ms. Moore will teach an art course for underprivileged children at Purchase College before taking a monthlong printmaking workshop in Florence, Italy.
