High-level Overview

Issues:

• Summer slide, summer brain drain, or summer learning loss especially in Mathematics
• High monetary cost of enrichment programs
• Scheduling and transportation effort for summer enrichment and sports programs
• No systematic religious education in outside summer programs (and no Sunday school)

Negative Consequences:

• Kids waste time on electronic devices rather than studies, physical activities, sports, and social interactions.
• As a community, we do not develop human and physical resources if we keep paying others for programs that do not exactly fit our needs

What to Do:

• Provide a healthy set of activities at one place. Kids get to learn about deen, pray on time, and interact among each other.
• Religious programs---recitation, hifz, tajweed, tafseer
• Language programs---Arabic, English debate, rhetoric, and logical argumentation
• Academic enrichment
• Physical activities and sports
• Provide high quality programs and charge market rates. 
• Monetary costs may be same as outside programs but the scheduling and transportation burden would be lower.
• Provide need-based scholarships but request parents or guardians to provide volunteer services in return (if possible).