Service Learning with Seniors

Youth Make Homemade Pierogies in Cooking Workshop

The DYEP youth made three batches of homemade pierogies on Thursday, the 22nd, in their weekly cooking session.

Making the pierogies from scratch, youth rolled out the dough and put in a potato, cheese and onion filling as well as a spinach, mushroom, Swiss cheese and onion filling. Teams also prepared homemade strawberry ice cream on the 22nd, rounding out a decadent meal.

Youth have created impressive meals in the kitchen in recent weeks, such as burritos with homemade salsa and Spanish rice, baked curry mustard chicken, fruit smoothies, apple crisp, watermelon and tomato salad, and black-eyed peas and kale "soul" stew.

And what do the budding chefs and gardeners have in store for you in the up and coming? This Friday the DYEP will be hosting a bake sale and a car wash as fundraisers. Baked goods, prepared by youth, will be on sale at the Christ Lutheran Church and around the community, and youth and staff will be washing cars throughout the day at the church at the corner of 4th and Kennedy, for $5.

DYEP Gets Some Help in the Garden

Middle-schoolers from the Duquesne/West Mifflin Boys and Girls Club's summer program came to work alongside DYEP youth in the community garden at the corner of Grant Avenue and First Street.

They planted bean seeds next to the corn. The bean vines will eventually wind their way up the corn stalks.

The young volunteers thoroughly watered the veggies and the newly-planted seeds.

Personal Narrative

I was given a bunch of topics to choose from but this one caught my attention the most, hope you feel the same way too if you read on.

The issue of teen pregnancy is a very interesting topic but here are my feelings about this issue.

If I was to have a friend that happened to get pregnant I would help her the best I could. Friendship does not change, even if there is something about to come in this world that might take a little time away from the stuff we used to do together.

If I was to get pregnant I don’t know what I would do, I would be so scared that I would not tell anyone about my pregnancy.

Do you think that girls that get pregnant between the ages 12 and 18 are nasty? Some would say yes but I would say that it depends on how she carries herself and she has to know who the baby’s father is. I also think that girls get pregnant because they want the attention they don’t have or get.

I know that teens can go to schools until they are about 32 weeks pregnant. These teens can decide to drop out after they have their baby or when the next school year comes around they can go back and finish. They also get 2 or 3 months off of school to take care of their baby. They also can have online classes (but they cost a lot of money) or a teacher come to your home.

Look for the full story on teen pregnancy in the DYEP’s upcoming newspaper issue.

Blog written by Shyann Haten☺

Field Trip to Oakland

On Friday the whole program took the city buses over to Oakland to explore the college campuses and see some of the sights, such as the Carnegie museums and the Schenley Park pool. For the first time this summer, we enjoyed a break from the normal workshop structure and team divisions.