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Our Mission
The mission of Operation Exodus Inner City (Exodus) is to promote personal growth, high educational achievement, and leadership to underserved children, with an emphasis on the Latino community in Washington Heights, through quality out-of-school education, caring mentoring relationships, school placement and parent workshops.
Our History
Since 1988, Exodus has been committed to the future of the at-risk children from the Washington Heights community in New York City. Our work began when Luis Iza, Jr.., a businessman and Sunday school teacher at a local church, was approached by a mother whose twelve year old son was living in fear of his life. This son had recently refused to join a neighborhood gang and was facing constant danger and harassment. Greatly moved to help, Mr. Iza shared this child’s plight with a boarding school. Equally moved, the school readily accepted the boy on a scholarship basis. As a result of the positive changes that education made in this child’s life, as well as a result of the persistent violence and lack of academic challenges in area schools, Mr. Iza and a group of parents from a Latino church founded Exodus.
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