The
Front Porch


Providing educational and recreational activities and opportunities to youth in Detroit according to their interests, initiatives and needs since 1997.
We believe children and youth should
  • have choices within limits
  • be listened to
  • have the right to play
  • have the right to learn
  • be encouraged to develop their interests
  • laugh hard
  • enjoy their lives and
  • be an important part of their community
marbles First spring day - a game of marbles on the Porch
fruit_kebabs Beautiful fruit kebabs made by A.C., A.C., and D.G.
Some of the Front Porch kids transformed 2 front lawns into a winter amusement park. They made a snowman, snow angels, constructed a sledding hill and a sectional sofa, made snowcastles, and snow cones. The kids were L.H., T.D., J.D., J.D., I.D., and S.D. 
  
snowman a snowman that started out as mickey mouse, turned to minnie mouse, lost her head, then got this little head and stick eyes.
snow sectional it began as a snow sofa and then turned into a sectional.
snowcastles snowcastles using the sandcastle buckets.  playing in snow is like playing in clean dirt.
snow hill the snow hill on the vacant house's lawn. ran out of snow at the other house. lots of fun.
snow house another snowcastle.
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The Front Porch P.O. Box 24744 Detroit, Michigan 48224 USA

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