Streets and when it rains, trash goes down to the storm drain and impacts the beaches and oceans.

So they're educated to that.

And then at the end of the school year, we bring out a few thousand of those kids to the beach, and that's what's going on today.

When you pick up trash, it's kind of fun because you can see like a lot of people here on this beach are helping the planet.

I'll don't connect all the trash because I don't want animals to get extinct.

And it helps the environment too.

So it's fun for me to pick up the trash.

It's sad and it's fun.

We're finding a lot of plastic and we're also.

Oh look, what is this?

It's like part of a straw.

We've been finding a lot of plastic.

There's capsules, cups.

I hope that these cleanups will make the kids better environmental stewards.

Um, it really does take all of us working together to keep our natural faces clean.

A lot of kids are not aware of what we need to do to take care of our earth.

So programs like this and celebrating earthly, it really makes us very conscious.

Anybody find their new trash?

I think it's important for their future and you know the Earth's future, and they get this experience and they learn that their action can affect the community as a whole.

Anybody that you talk to that's involved in this environmental movement, when they were a kid, they were at the beach and they fell in love.

So this is a love project.

This is getting kids down here to fall in love.

Well, good morning, everyone.

Welcome to Parthenia Place.

This is home to about a hundred and sixty residents.

I thank you all for being here to celebrate a major investment in this community.

We are very grateful and excited with today's announcement by Congresswoman Luz Rivas, who was able to secure $750,000 for the residents of Parthenia Place, uh, to be able to repurpose um a room into a computer lab.

This building was uh built in 2021 and it houses formerly homeless um and other residents.

Uh so this computer lab will be a great way to bridge the digital divide.

Children and families will have access to technology and the internet, they can use it for school, apply for jobs.

We want them to thrive in this building.

I mean, it's really going to heighten the experience here at Parthinian place.

I have teenagers.

I have all teenagers, and they need a place to do their homework.

And being upstairs with TV and their radio and their phone, it distracts them.

And actually having a computer lab for them to do their work is really good.

When I first heard it, I was like, oh my god, yes, away from my parents and away from my brothers.

So I was very excited.

When we invest in the tools, the spaces and support systems our residents need.

We are investing in stability, dignity, and opportunity.

Their residents will have access to technology to internet to uh also support for students support with homework or adults support with uh looking for a job or uh gaining access to their uh caretaker, or as the councilwoman said, also connecting with government.

Um so we think that it's really important that we bring um the resources and the support that uh residents need to be able to not just reach stability but also to get ahead.

I'm trying to go back to school as well, and I think having a computer here would be great.

My diet, my oldest is in college, have a high schooler, and sometimes it's hard for them to focus in the apartment.

There's TV, their phones and everything.

I feel like having it here close to home, they can do their work here.

Have a space to do it away from home, away from the noise.

I think it's gonna be great.

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