Yonkers Public Schools‘ My Brother’s Keeper is partnering with the city to provide Yonkers youth with work experience this summer.
MBK is a long-standing school-based program that supports students of color through mentorship and community partnerships. For the summer program, MBK is connecting students 16 and older with paid jobs disposing of trash throughout the city.
Among the 10 participants are eight young men and two young women, including MBK fellows who are current students living in Yonkers, as well as recent high school graduates. The Department of Public Works and the Mayor’s office partnered to launch the effort.
“Scholars return with greater confidence, knowledge, and networks that they can share with younger students and other members of the brotherhood-at-large,” said Marvin Robinson III, executive director of MBK, in a release.
The program will continue through the start of school. Young adults in the program who have graduated may have the opportunity to continue working full-time after the summer. Twelve additional MBK members are participating in a separate summer youth employment program through the Yonkers Department of Labor.
