[caption id="attachment_16589" align="alignnone" width="799"] Aster Bekele, the founder of The Felege Hiywot Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, stand by the center's high tunnel that was built in November 2020 and will be planted for the first time in Spring 2021. The high tunnel was funded in...
Felege Hiywot Center (FHC) has received a $54,000 grant through the Youth Program Resilience Fund of Lilly Endowment Inc. FHC will use the grant to provide learning support interspersed with healthy eating and physical activity to students residing at New Bridge Apartments, located in Martindale...
This past month we were excited to have one of our Youth Farm Leaders, Naomi Davis, host her Beautification Capstone Project by partnering with the Felege Hiywot Center and Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. Naomi Davis has been an active youth with us since she was in...
Today FHC presented a workshop at Neighbor Power Indy 2019. What is Neighbor Power Indy? "Convened by INRC, in partnership with the City of Indianapolis, Neighbor Power Indy brings together hundreds of neighborhood residents, community leaders, business owners, nonprofits, corporate partners, government staff and elected officials...
[embed]https://www.facebook.com/fhcindy/videos/1580384202063809/[/embed] Every year The Felege Hiywot Center has a Thanksgiving dinner where we invite the community to sit down and break bread together. This year the students kicked the party off by sharing what they are thankful for. While the students were working Terrence and the Chef...
So what is The Super Service Challenge? Founded in 2011, the Super Service Challenge is a nationwide movement to transform organizations through service. Driven by the idea people and teams grow stronger when they join together to serve, the Challenge encourages volunteerism, sharing stories of service...
Have you ever heard of PreEnact? Here is a little bit about it from the PreEnact team themselves: "PreEnactment theater envisions a neighborhood that OUGHT to be—just, equitable, and economically vibrant. Our stage is an entire three blocks of 16th Street. From the Monon to Andrew J....
[embed]https://www.facebook.com/fhcindy/videos/2133216560227155/[/embed] Did you know that Indy Parks food programs provide hundreds of thousands of meals each year to youth in Marion County and more than one million meals during the SummerServings meal program? Well there is a new initiative called Farm to Fork that will provide...
[embed]https://www.facebook.com/fhcindy/videos/2071993883016090/[/embed] For the past several months we've been working hard on the Eli Lilly Arts and Culture Grant with several wonderful partners. Together we have developed a wonderful sense of excitement and vision towards building a better local community together. After the submission was in we...
Today the Felege Hiywot Center Youth had the wonderful opportunity to attend the 2018 Indianapolis Youth Empowerment Summit put on by Teach for America Indianapolis hosted at Indianapolis University Purdue University Indianapolis. The purpose of the summit is to help students become leaders of tomorrow within their personal...