Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development

Mission: Bonding against adversity's primary purpose is to provide no cost or low cost education services to under privileged residents of the north houston, harris county, texas area with emphasis on middle school and high school students at risk of dropping out of school, provide health education for mother's who are obese and provide general education to the community in spanish for those residents who do not speak english and provide free citizenship workshops and education classes to assist legal residents complete the n400 application and to provide citizenship preparation classes.

Programs: Health education services, including exercise classes, nutrition classes and health education services to more than 300 area residents who did not have means to otherwise obtain these services

provided citizenship education services through 6 education workshops and 64 days of citizenship education classes. The combination of workshops and classes reached in excess of 1200 non-citizens

through our one on one mentoring for students with potential program we assisted 30 students at the middle school and high school level who were at risk of dropping out of school. All of the students exceed expectations for classroom and learning performance and/or passed to the next grade level. All have returned to school for continuing education. Through our teen summit we reached more than 800 middle school students with information about life choices.