Melodie Holmes is a participant in the Summer Service Program which enables people of diverse ethnic backgrounds, such as African-American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic and Native American, to work with a church or service agency in their home communities for 10 weeks. MCC U.S. and local congregations support the participants. Melodie works a as youth worker at Crossroads Community Center in South Philadelphia.
Photographs by Brenda Burkholder
August 2006