A weekend of community, education, and sports just wrapped up in El Paso\u2019s Segundo Barrio.<\/p>\n
Inside the Armijo Recreation Center children of all ages come together for Basketball in the Barrio. This three-day event gives children much more than basketball; they learn to plant, play soccer, and play harmonica.<\/p>\n
CEO Steve Yellen says this event builds confidence for kids who live in the second lowest income zip code per capita.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want them to think I\u2019m from the wealthiest neighborhood in the country, but the metric is different. The metric is art, culture, and basketball,\u201d Yellen said.<\/p>\n
I spoke to attendees Juniper and Abigail, they both have been participating for many years. Juniper says she looks forward to the weekend.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one of the best camps, I think. I think it’s one of the best camps I could do in the summer,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Abigail said her favorite part is learning more basketball skills.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives me like more exercise and more experience in basketball,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
High school Basketball coach Josh Rosenbaum travels from Arizona every year to be a part of this event. He learned about this event in 2017. He thinks every city should have an event like this because it brings the community together.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy students come from a neighborhood very similar to Segundo barrio so to be able to come and give back to another community just warms my heart,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
This camp is an opportunity for youth to learn positive skills and gives them pride in their neighborhood and culture, Yellen said.<\/p>\n
At the end of camp kids leave with two basketballs, two bilingual books, a harmonica and a poster.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want the people around the city and Las Cruces to understand what a special camp it is and bring your kids next year,\u201d Yellen said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A weekend of community, education, and sports just wrapped up in El Paso\u2019s Segundo Barrio. Inside the Armijo…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-346076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}