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About Mission
Mission
Our Vision
Hopeworks empowers youth to identify and 
develop their D.R.E.A.M.S. (Dynamic, Realizable Efforts to Attain and Maintain Success) and own their future.
Our Mission
We do this by enhancing the lives of inner-city Camden youth by expanding the learning opportunities available to them, pointing the way to a future full of hope and working together to create that future. The heart of our program is technology training, which we provide in a safe, respectful, and celebratory atmosphere. We train our youth in state-of-the art computer applications: website design, geographic information services (GIS), computer networking and repair, and video.
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Through the Hopeworks program, we specifically seek:
- To reduce the high school dropout rate for African-American and Hispanic youth in Camden, New Jersey.
- To create hope for the future, good-paying jobs, business development and educational opportunities for Camden's young people--specifically African-American and Hispanic youth between the ages of 17 and 25 who have dropped out of school. Such a mission is essential in that our city:
- There are 8,000 young people who have dropped out of high school.
- The high school dropout rate is close to 70% at the two public high schools.
- 34% of the city's young people are unemployed.
- Nearly 50% of the city's young people live in poverty.
