Pilot Project.

Everyone's familiar with MAARUF's focus on leadership development for young people. We're about to begin a new phase of the effort. We've taken on a project which, we hope, will encourage an at risk youth to change tracks. We were approached by his mother after his second arrest for a minor offense. We've established contact with his probation officer and will design a series of leadership activities designed to expose him to local level civics. The general approach to a community service sentence is a mop and broom, an approach that does not build the character we need in our young people. We hope that through this effort we can have a new alternative to offer at risk youth.