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Working and learning with the Historic Ville Neighborhood of North Saint Louis, we bring people together to build relationships, support, educate, inspire, and promote positive change. - Revitalization 2000, Inc. Mission Statement

 

Founded in 1998, Revitalization 2000, Inc. (“R2K”) builds empowering relationships with residents of the Ville neighborhood of North St. Louis.  We serve as a bridge between them and the broader region so that together we might build a better neighborhood and a better St. Louis.

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The home base of R2K, Claver House broadens horizons and builds kinship. Recognizing the dignity of all persons, we help dissolve economic, racial, and cultural barriers. We do this by:

1. Offering science and literacy-based enrichment activities to grade school age youth in a safe, home-like, loving environment.

2. Providing a service-learning environment for volunteers that promotes faith and justice, creates awareness of the realities of poverty, and offers opportunities for developing personal relationships with the underserved.

3. Engaging with neighbors, doing so with kindness, in solidarity and accompaniment, providing food, household, and personal care items to needy families, seniors, and students of our neighborhood schools, and guiding them to collaborating service organizations with further resources to assist..

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