NfN over the years has assisted the working poor offering a food store, free medical clinic, optometry, dental, legal, small loans and counseling. Last year NfN gave assistance to over 34,000 individuals with a budget of approximately $400,000 amounting to an in kind service of over $2,500,000.

At all three Centers NfN offers tutoring programs for kids in that area. At the Centers athletic programs are offered with the stipulation that the those involved attend tutoring class. These tutoring programs are assisted using computer tutorial software.

This spring a computer lab at one of the Centers has been completed. The single car attached garage has been converted into a twenty-four by ten foot room which will be available for an exciting new program of renovating used 286/386 computers.

With the help of volunteer computer technicians in harmony with kids eager to learn the mechanics of how a computer functions these discarded computers will be restored. The kids will not only learn how a computer functions, but will become knowledgeable in operating the computer.

For the most part the kids in that neighborhood don t have a computer at home, and as a result have a harder time competing educationally with the more affluent kids. The kids that put their time into the project shall earn the right to a refurbished computer. All the above- mentioned programs are without cost to the area kids.

At the present time NfN has sufficient computers for the program, but if additional computers and technicians were available the program could be expanded to include more students. Linda LaDeur is manager of the Centers and can be reached at NfN s office at 425 5578, or Don McCarthy at e-mail address: DMcCar2540@AOL.com

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