2012 camps - Horses in the Hood

HHLA NEWSLETTER
2012 CAMPS
The mission of Horses in the Hood, Los Angeles (HHLA) is to introduce the Watts and adjoining
communities to the joy of caring for and riding horses. This experience, and the participants’
accomplishments, can open minds to pursue never before imagined possiblities. With your generous
donations, HHLA organized and funded six camps this year at Mill Creek Equestrian Center in Topanga.
Participating organizations for 2012 include: 92nd Street Elementary School (Watts), Maryvale
(Rosemead), A Place Called Home (Los Angeles), St. John’s United Methodist Church (Watts), Shields
for Families (Watts/Compton), Watts Towers Art Center (Watts).
© 2012
Issue No. 18
HHLA Board of Directors
Founder & Chairman of the Board:
Kathy Kusner
President: Jacob P. Wheeler, III
Treasurer: Glen Stauss
Secretary: Glenn Goodstein
Nina Bonnie
Craig Chambers, in Memoriam
Joe Gillet Davies
Virginia Fout
Miranda Scott
Sharon Warner
HHLA Adminstrative Director:
Amy Sawelson Landes
Pro Bono Tax Accountant:
Tamara Schuh Hanson
Pro Bono Counsel:
Alex Fukui, 501- C3 & Non
Profit Advisor
Jill Pietrini, Trademark &
Copyright
Pro Bono Webmaster: Dallas Jones
Pro Bono Facebook Manager:
Jennifer Wilson
Pro Bono Photos: Laura Johnson &
Donna Gulnac
Newsletter Design: Donna Gulnac
Print & Production: Britannia Press
Horses in the Hood is a non-profit, public
benefit corporation. You may obtain copies
of this newsletter from our Website:
http://www.hhla.org.
“Watts Towers” Goes to Horse Camp
By Rosie Lee Hooks, Director, Watts Towers Art Center (Rosie also rode
in the Horse Camp)
The 50 year old Watts Towers Arts Center Campus provides
many of the Watts/Compton/South Central communities
with high quality arts and museum education - free of
charge. These non-competitive activities help to develop our
youth in a variety of ways. Included is giving them a positive
self image which leads to improving academic performance
- thus supporting their aspirations for a successful future!
For our families living in the Watts community, with the hi
highest
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the 15 council districts, and seeing streets blanketed with graffiti, concrete and blight, and being
exposed to ongoing battles between gangs - this is all part of daily life! Just to be able to participate
in regular activities can be a challenge! However, our community is also made up of loving, caring
families who want the same things that most families want for their children. A chance to grow,
learn and become the best that they can be!
This summer we sent some of our
students to spend a week at Horses in
the Hood’s day camp. For most of our
young people, they have never been
outside of their immediate area, much
less even thought about grooming and
riding horses! Words cannot express the
profound impact that this has had on
them - and on us as well.
Horses in the Hood provided a service
that we could have never afforded; a week
of exposure in a different environment
other than Watts! It was such a joy to see
Rosie Lee Hooks, Watts Towers Art Center Director, participated along our kids, eager everyday to go to camp
and make an intimate connection with
with the “camp Kids.”
nature. They overcame a lot of fears fears of big animals, fears of trying new things and fears of failure. So much happiness radiated
from the phenomenal staff and the wonderful volunteers from the Mill Creek lesson program!
Because of them, we learned a vast amount of information in a very short amount of time! From
this experience, our campers have newfound interests - some are thinking of new possible career
choices!
Horses in the Hood is a life saver! We can attest to that. Your organization is providing an
opportunity that is priceless! We will be forever grateful to Horses in the Hood for a life changing
experience thru connecting with both nature and with horses!
HHLA Newsletter Issue no. 18, page 2
Shields for Families
by Flavy Vasquez
Shields for Families is a Non-Profit Organization which is committed to
providing comprehensive services for children and their families in the
communities of Watts, Willowbrook and Compton.
Horses in the Hood helped our children to heal from some of the
wounds attained from living in the “hood.” One of our children stated,
“I have never been around so many nice people telling me what a good
job I was doing.” Another who has difficulty communicating with
adults, communicated very well with horses; and she also bonded with
“Lucky”.
One of the reasons they are able to overcome these obstacles is a program
like Horses in the Hood! Kids learn to ride and care for horses! Some
of their difficult life symptoms have been agitation, anxiety, insecurity,
poor concentration, anger, depression, grieving, post-traumatic stress,
and sometimes even self-injury (cutting) and suicidal ideation.
Our children carry heavy burdens that impair their social and emotional
functioning. One of our children said, “I had never been anywhere
farther than Compton.” After Camp, this child was “smiley and riding
tall”. I have never seen him with so much confidence. It just proved that
Horses in the Hood was the greatest experience for this child - on so
many levels.
Coming from an environment that is constantly bombarded with
gunshots, violence and crime, Horses in the Hood became a sanctuary
of warmth for our children. Being paired with horses has been a healing
presence.
Shields, is greatly appreciative to the donors of Horses in the Hood,
and to the staff, including the wonderful volunteers; all who show such
patience and are so good when working with our children. Horses in the
Hood may be the only positive pro-social experience these children have
experienced outside of their regular therapy sessions.
Shields would like to express our gratitude and appreciation to Kathy
Kusner and to everyone who makes Horses in the Hood happen. Thank
you for believing in and contributing to this remarkable opportunity for
our children.
St. John’s United Methodist Church Camp
HHLA campers are given a disposable camera and the book Happy Horsemanship on their first day of camp and a
blue ribbon and certificate on the last day of camp.
HHLA Newsletter Issue no. 18, page 3
Horses in the Hood Riding Photo Gallery, 2012
Visit us on the Web at www.hhla.org or www.horsesinthehood.org
HHLA Newsletter Issue no. 18, page 4
Horses in the Hood, Los Angeles Thanks Our Generous Donors:
Anonymous
Anonymous
Anonymous in the names of Jill
Hamilton & Nancy Thomas
Barry Abrams
Cara Sue & Nicholas Achterberg
Joe Aitcheson, Jr.
Altaf Al-Thekair
Debbie Allen
Anchar Bay Farm, Carrie Farmer
Catherine H. Anderson
Louis Antonio
Ann Archer
Mea Argentieri & David Cornell
Susan Ashe
American Horse Shows Assn, Inc.
Paul D. Assinesi
Sandy Aston
in honor of Susan Hutchison
Nicole Avant
Ellen Kavanaugh-Baer &
Terry Baer
Natalie J. Baffert
W. Gary Baker
Bank of America matching for
Margaret Lech-Loubet
Bank of America United Way
Campaign
Alexis Barba
J.H.S. Entertainment,
George Barnes
Beth Bass
Serena Bateman
Tyler Baze
Nancy & Bruce Beale
Christine Beard
Robert A. Bean
Ronnie Beard
Maureen Becker
Frank Bekker
Ron Belkin
Louis Bell
Cher Bentley
Pamela Bernstein
Annikka Berridge
Melissa Bessette
Jennifer Betow
Ann & Faye Bierbower
Louis Bell
Jacqueline Birk
William Blanchard
Irith Bloom
Carlene Blunt
Boeing Company - Employees’
Community Fund
Mrs. Edward S. Bonnie
Lisa Borzynski,DVM &
William Cooper,MD
Pam and Richard Botzbach
Tanya & Christopher Bowland
Cynthia A. Boyer
Debbie Brand
Dorothy & Leo Braudy
Ann Brede
Thom & Wissie Brede
Bremer, Whyte, Brown &
O’Meara, LLP
Joe & Karen Bressler
Morgan Brown
in the name of Kevin McGinn
Whitney Brown
Angela Brunson
Rebecca Brunson
Connie Buckley
on behalf of Bitsy Shields
Elizabeth Burke
Jackie Burke
Linda Starkman Burke
Robert Burke
James & Debbie Burrows
Lynn Butler
Sean Caenepeel
California Community Foundation
John & Hallie Cameron
Bebe Moore Campbell
Julia Cannon
The Capital Group Companies
Charitable Foundation in honor
of Kathleen De Witt
Jack Carava
Michelle Coltrane Carbonell
Diane Carney - Telluride Farm
Penny Carpenter
Faye Caswell
B. D. A. Cecil
Vladimir Cerin
Craig Chambers
Denise & John M. Charlebois
Laura Chatterley
Gwen & Roberto Chavarria
Penny (Tweedy) Chenery
The Cherbec Advancement
Foundation
Phillip Cillis
Citibank/Citigroup Foundation
Community Health Charities
Jo Cho
The Chronicle Bulletin Board
in memory of Kathy Havens
Jennifer Kate Clapp
Andrew Clarkson
Joni & Samuel Clayton
Richard Clayton
Anne, Brent & Michael Clinger
James Cloonan
Combined Health Appeal of
California
Margaret Cone
Lacey Connor
Lorna & Anne Conway
Paul Cooley
Jean Ann Cooper
Patrice Corbridge
Dorrit Corwin
in the name of India Brittenham
Jon Court
Court Racing
Diane Cowell
Rachel Croft
Agneta Currey
Brownlee Currey Foundation
Jane & Norman Curtis
Anatasia Curwood
Gina Burr Dailey
Kathleen Daniels
Joe & Blythe Davies
Kelly Davis
Sandra de Roulet
Diane de Souza
Jane Dejarnette
Delaware Equine Center
Dennis M. & Marion C. DeLeo
Jose E. DeLima
Peter and Sara Densen
Betsy Gerson Densen
on behalf of Mrs Liz Rooney &
in memory of Dossie & Sy
Gerson
Kent & Sonia Desormeaux
Peter Denton
Alexis Deutsch
Kathryn Di Carlo
Leonard Dorfman
Ed Dorio
Robert Dover
Fran Drescher
Neil Drysdale
Leilani & William Duke
Dun Foundation
Maleta & John Dunne, M.D.
Robert Duvall Children’s Fund
Robert & Luciana Duvall
Mollie Eckelberry
Joan Edwards
Lynne Eisler
Janet Elliot
In Memory of Henry Mallory&
Dickie Hendricks
Marnye Elliott
Ronald W. Ellis
Tom Ellison
Michael Elmore
Isaias Enriquez
Harriet Entin, MSW
Rev. Gail Epes
Equistar International
The Equus Foundation
Amanda Espy
Eleanor Estes
Anne Etheridge
Julie Evonna & Ann Thal
in memory of Craig Chambers
James D. Faber
Joe Fargis
Carrie Farmer
John Fechtman
Don Feinstein
Carol Fenwick
Dorothy Ferrante
Julie Fershtman
Lauren Fetterman
Mr. & Mrs. Bertram Firestone
Anna Fischer
in memory of Craig Stone
Gerald Fisher & Mary C. Kennedy
Jack Fisher
Elizabeth Fitzgerald
Loretta Floyd
Pamela Forrestal
Lillian Forward
Elizabeth & Roger Foster
Foundation for Global Sports
Development
Virginia Fout
Robert Frankel
Barrie & Kevin Freeman
John French
Ruth Frey
in memory of Martha Frey
Karen & Zev Fried
Lynn & Jonathan Friendly
Claudia Frost
Brooke Fruchtenbaum
Alex Fukui
The Fuller Foundation
Laura Johnson Furr
Megan Furth
Patrick Gallagher
Debra Gannon
Louis Gatto
Keith Gayhart
James Geibel
The Geomar Foundation, Inc.
Germantown Charity Horse Show
James Giacopuzzi, D.V.M.
Dolly Giner
Gregory Gingery
Melissa Giovagnoli
Giving Express from American
Express
Raizy Goffman - Camelot Riding
Club
Claudia & Hector Gomez
Lisa Gomez
The Gonda Family Foundation
R.Otis Goodin
Glenn & Laura Goodstein
Megan Gore
Joan Goswell
Maxine Gottesman
Jim “Mallard” Green
Molly Rose Green
Dean Greenman
Kimberley Gregg
Gail Gregson
Dana Grenier & John Holcomb
Dianne Grod
Helen Groves
Donna Gulnac
Kim Guess
Jana Gustman
Sam Gustman
Colleen & Robert Haas
Joan B. Hadley
Jill Hamilton
Tom & Rita Hanks Family
Foundation
Maureen Hanley
Gail Hargrove
Marjie Harms
Gabrielle Harris
Judith Hasko in honor of Jill
Hamilton & Nancy Thomas
Carol Hawkins
In Memory of Battle Life
Frances Haws
Mike Hay
Sarah Hayes
Elizabeth Hays
Robert Heath, Fibar Inc.
Jeanne Heiple
Yael Hellman
Arletta Henderson
Dan L. Hendricks
Susan & Paul Herer
R. B. Hess, Jr.
Patricia Heuckeroth
Hunter’s Hideaway
Wm. C. Kirk Hinshaw
Jamie Hirsch
John & Dana Holcomb
Alice Holt
Conrad Homfeld
Housing Corporation of America
Jay Hovdey
Jayne Huddleston
Bernard Hudson
Andy Hunter
Barbara Hunter
Tab Hunter
Stephanie & J.Steven Hutcherson
Susan Hutchison
Sally Ike
Interior Music Corporation
Interscholastic Equestrian League
Denise & Mike Jeffries
Gary Hudson & Julie Jewls Jin
Tiffany Joerger
in the name of Kevin McGinn
Dallas Jones
Arvid Johnson
Laura Johnson,
HHLA Photographer
Laura Johnson
on behalf of Jessica Lopez
Rutha Johnson
Kaiser Permanente Watts
Counseling & Learning Center
Richard Kahn
Christine Kapetan
Kenneth Kapfhammer
Karen Kay
Chuck Keller
Taia Kemp
David King & Phoebe Weseley
Beverli & Steve Klausen
Randal Klein
in memory of Craig Chambers
Gail Kopcsak
Ada Koransky, MD
Julie Krone
Lisa Krutchik
Kathy Kusner
Yvette La Vigne
Joan Scharffenberger Laarakkers
Laurie J. & Claire Landeau
Amy Sawelson Landes
Joann Landon
Larry Langer
N. Patricia Lasko
LBW Insurance
Marion H. Lee
Midge Leitch, VMD
Liz Leow
Jill & Ari Levin-Arroyo in memory
of Josh Levin
Juan Leyva
Elaine & Donna Lindelef
Beverli Linn
Pauline & Terrence Locken
Londonderry Equine
Sarah Longmire-Cook
Los Angeles Horse Show Association
Los Angeles Turf Club - Santa Anita
Park
Pierre Loubet & Margaret
Lech-Loubet
The Lucas Foundation
Lucille Ellis Simon Foundation
Abigail Lufkin
on behalf of Margaret Bishop
Allison Lufkin, Elise B. Lufkin,
Elise G. Lufkin & Helen Marx
Elise B. Lufkin
Joe Lumarda
Dorothy Lyman
Macedonia Baptist Church
Benevolence Fund
John Madamba
Andrew Maier
Karen Maish
Barney Mallace
Mark & Carroll Maltzman
Richard Mandella
Lauren Manera
Patty Marken
Dan Marks, DVM
Ken Marash
Helen Marx
Suzanne Mattson
Dorothy Matz
Summer Mayberry
Rachel K. McCart - Equine Legal
Solutions
Mary Kate McCaw
Susan McClammy
Jay S. McClellan
Kandi McCoy
Virginia McElroy
Kevin McGinn, McGinn Riding
School
Margaret McGovern
Tamara McKinney
Dorothy McNoble,MD
John Medina
Linda Melski
Ada Meltzer
Larry Meyers
Middle Ranch Operating Co.
Millennium Farm - Jill Hamilton/
Nancy Thomas
Carol & Bill Miller
R. Michael Miller
W.G. Miller
Tom Mills
Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern in the
name of Sydney Povich Agus
Anne Mize
Anne Modi
Ellen Moelis
Continued on next page
HHLA Newsletter Issue no. 18, page 5
Horses in the Hood, Los Angeles Donors List, continued:
Jacqueline & G. Lawrence Moison Peter Rabinowitz
Elizabeth M. Radakovich
Vicky Moon
for Lucy Moreton
Tara Moore
Peggy Rainey
Douglas Morgan
Carolyn Randall
William Moroney
Suze Randall
George H. Morris
Christian Ratsch
Anne Moss
Sallie Motch & Robert Lawrence Thomas C. Rattigan
Rosalie Reed
Ronald Motsinger
Christy Reich
Ken Nagy
Mary Litchfield Reid
Corey Nakatani
Max & Judy Richter
The Newstead Foundation
Robert & Hillary Ridland
The New Tudor Foundation
Audrey Riker
Maryann Nisley
Samuel & Caroline Rogers
Mary Jo Nolan
Roll Giving & Paramount
Carol Noonan
Community Giving
Sheryl North
Luana Romanelli
The Norton Foundation
Muriel Rose
Laura Numeroff
Jaclyn & Sydney Rosenberg
Karen Reid Offield
Foundation
Old Oak Farm
Charles & Karen Rosin Family
Carole O’Brien
Gail Ross & George Meyer
Frank & Janice O’Meara
Robert Ross
Joy O’Neal
Randolph Rouse
Carolyn Orfanella
Stephanie & Charles Roven
- The Willow Fund
Deborah Rush
Donn Ozaki
Richard Rust
Carita Palmer
Cornelia Rutledge
Guru Parhash
in honor of Leslie A. Rutledge
Mary Ann Parmelee
Jessica Saalfield
Robin & Gerald L. Parsky
Amy Safdeye
Leslie Ripley-Pasterko &
Jenine Sahadi
Peter Pasterko
Santa Anita Racetrack
Deborah Patten
Sheri Saumers
Tammie Peacock
Barbara Saunier
Julie O. Petrini
Pat Scanlan
Harriet E. Pfleger Foundation
Steven Schachter
Ellen Phenpimon
Sara Schaefer
Christina Pickles
Marion & George Scharffenberger
Bruce Pike
Elizabeth Schiff & Andrew
Potluck’s Place
Kaufman
Stephan & Ginny Plancke
Christina Schlusemeyer
Steven D. Price
Linda Scott
Andrea Rabinowitz
Miranda Scott
Rachel Rabinowitz
Heather Secker
Gay Wiles Senk
Sewanee University of the South
Equestrian Team
Kathleen Shannon
Allen & Darian Shapiro
Mark Sheeran
Elena Sherman
Erin Rudy & Troy Shipp
John Shirreffs
Ron Shishido
Aaron Siegel
in the name of Darian & Allen
Shapiro, in memory of
Stanley Nelson
Kerry Silver
Laura & James Sinner
LaVern Slavin
Jane Smiley
Linda Irvine Smith
Mike Smith
Preston Smith
Daniel Smithwick, Jr.
Smithwick Racing Stables
Snaffles, Inc.
Alex Solis
Leslie Sowle
Steven Spierer in honor of
Lisa Davies & Carlos Siderman
Douglas Spencer
Jennet & Brig. Gen W.H. Spillers, Jr.
Robert Standish, U.S. Equestrian
Team
Mary Lynn Stanton DVM
Maj. Diane Marie Stash
Dani & Leonard Steinberg in honor
of Glenn & Laura Goodstein
William Steinkraus
Frances Steinwedell
Gary Stevens
Nathan Stiles
Susan Stillman
Glen Strauss
Jim & Nancy Stoll
Krista Strauss
Paul Striberry
K.N. Strickland
Gary Stevens
Dana Pilar Stumvoll
Diana Stumvoll
in memory of Hugh Wiley
Michael Sullivan
Scott Sullivan
Sheri Summers
Karoline & Ronald Swan
Brian Sweeney
Melissa Sweeney
Polly Sweeney
Debra & A. David Szot
Paula Tallen
Tamara Tamburro
Janet Hibel-Tarpell
Nancy Targaglia
Deborah Tassie
Chrystine & George Tauber
Mary S Taylor
in memory of Jane Moore
S. George Terbovich
Ann Thal
Bud Thomas
Deborah Thomas
Phyllis G. Thomas
Carol Hoffman Thompson
Kenneth & Cornelia Thompson
Thoroughbred Charities of
America, Ltd.
Melinda & Al Tichenor
Mary Tiscornia
The T.R. Family Trust
Andrew Turney
Nancy Turrill
Melissa Tyson, D.M.V.
United Way
USET Show Jumping Developing
Riders’ Committee
Jose Valdivia, Jr.
Tammy Valley
Martha Van Sickle
Stacey Van Syckle
Michael & Janet Vandever
Jeff & Jana Vannini
Lee Ann Veley
Octavio Vergara
Julie & Paul Verona
Charlotte Von der Hube
Vibeke Von der Hube
Dan Walker
Ellen Walz
McLain & Barney Ward
Bill & Beverly Warren
Water Buffalo Club
Marilyn Watts
Judy Warkentin
WCE/Zone 10
Maria Weaver
in the name of Kevin McGinn
Mary Weisberg
Dawn Wells
Patricia Wells
Rebecca & Donald Wells
Terry Lee Wells
Shelly & Mary Wetterstroem
Julie Whitney
Barbara Wicks
Sheila Wickstrom
Henry Williams
Valerie Williams
Jennifer Wilson
Jean Wingis
Julia Winston
Robert Winthrop Charitable Trust
Jennifer Wolch &
Michael Dear, PhD.
Jim Wolff
Kathryn & Paul Wolyn
Anne B. Wong, M.D.
Suzannah Woods
Shannon Woolfe
Anne Morton Wyman
Yahoo! Employee Giving
Anne Zolla - Zolla
Family Foundation
We Need Your Donation so Inner City Children Can Go to Horse Camp!
$3984 Sponsors a complete five-day horse camp, including books and cameras, for 12 participants.
$332 Sponsors one horse camp participant for five days, buys a disposable camera & the book Happy Horsemanship.
$20 Buys a disposable camera and pays film developing costs for one horse camp participant.
$12 Buys the book Happy Horsemanship for one horse camp participant.
$________Choose your own donation toward sending children to horse camps.
$________Here is my gift in honor of/in memory of (circle one) _______________________________
$________Wear your support for HHLA. Please specify quantity of each size and/or color:
Visor ($15) Black:______ White:______ Baseball Cap ($15) Black:______ White:______
T-Shirts - Black or White ($25):Youth Medium (10-12):______ Youth Large (14-16):______
Adult Medium:______ Adult Large:______ Adult X-Large:______ Adult XX-Large:______
Enclosed is my tax deductible donation of: $______________
Make checks payable to Horses in the Hood and mail to:
Horses in the Hood, P.O. Box 573249, Tarzana, CA 91357-3249
Donations may also be made by credit card
by going to our website: www.hhla.org and
clicking on the "To Give Donations" link
Confirmation of your donation will be mailed to you. All donations are tax-deductible as provided by law. Tax ID: 95-4628198
HHLA FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:
Horses in the Hood had 6 camps this year. Our goal is to never say no to a group that basically comes from the Watts/
Compton area. Horses in the Hood has only one paid person, Amy Landes, our Administrative Director. She receives
$1,000 a month. ALL the rest of the people do what they do pro bono.
Our expenses are: $4,000 to Mill Creek for each camp. This includes everything! Mill Creek is a wonderful place
to have our camps - good school horses, a very good teacher, beautiful place! We include a book about horses and
riding - “Happy Horsemanship” - and a disposable camera to each camp rider. Newsletter Printing/mailing cost
is approximately $3,300 for our newsletter - its layout and photos are pro bono. We recently got a new supply of
stationary - the invoice was $530.70.
Our horse campers do not only have two riding lessons a day, but they also learn from the Blacksmith, the Veterinarians
and Mario, who is in charge of the school horses.
A few programs that we work with do not have any transportation to go to horse camp. We pay $2000 for a bus, round
trip, for the camp week - Global Transportation.
HHLA has excellent comprehensive insurance with Nonprofits Insurance Alliance of California. It is all maximum
coverage except that we have a $5 million Umbrella - this goes over the top of the Directors and Officers and the
General Liability Insurance. Annual charge for all of our insurance is $6670.
Horse Camp has a few other small costs -- for example, the Friday picnic which is part of each camp’s Graduation
Day! We have great photographers, and a newsletter designer, a webmaster, and HHLA’s Facebook “caretaker” - all
of this is for no charge!
Wonderful excellent young horse people from Mill Creek’s lesson program help with the campers. They are the same age as
the camp kids - and they love helping the camp kids! Camp kids and Malibu, Palisades, etc.: kids from different lives
- nice humans! They are at Mill Creek working together for the week. Perfect!
Horses in the Hood does not have fund raisers. Don’t have that to pay for that! ALL support comes from our donors!
Our mantra: “Keep It Simple. Bring kids to horse camp!” Horses in the Hood has been a joy to all concerned.
Thank you to our donors that care about the people that we serve.
WHO?
Horses in the Hood, Los Angeles
(HHLA) is a nonprofit public benefit
corporation that has been working
with organizations and institutions
in the low-income, largely AfricanAmerican and Latino, community
of Watts and adjacent areas since
1999. As of the October 2012, HHLA
has sent 845 at-risk youths to 83
horse camps.
WHAT?
Our primary goal is to continue to
provide five-day horse day camps,
which are made possible by our
donors. HHLA believes that children
learn by doing and that education
should be rewarding and fun.
Working with horses is conducive to
forming emotional bonds. Shared
experience promotes personal
growth. HHLA hopes to teach the
students new skills, which will
help build their self-esteem and
confidence.
WHY?
Watts is infamous for the riots
of 1965 and 1992, but HHLA has
been enriched by the experience
with wonderful people in Watts,
Compton and neighboring areas
who work hard to improve their
lives and their community.
P.O. Box 573249
Tarzana, CA 91357-3249
Tel: (323)564-7669
Fax: (818)776-9637
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Visit us on the Web at www.hhla.org or www.horsesinthehood.org