After School Advantage

Youth Zone

Lydia's House is Growing Children by providing a safe, nurturing after-school and summer-camp experience for 120 low-income and at-risk youth ages 6-12. Here kids enjoy being kids as part of the Lydia's House After School Advantage Program.

Lydia's House offers 160 older youth ages 13-21 a chance to strut their stuff as part of the Youth Zone Entrepreneurial and Technology Training Program. Here teens share their talent with the community.

Tech Zone

In June 2003, Lydia's House officially opened "The Zone" at 3939 South Capitol Street in southwest Washington, DC marking the completion of a joint public-private effort to provide residents of Ward 8 with video conferencing capabilities and three state-of-the-art computer labs. Here children, part of Lydia's House after-school youth programs, show DC Mayor Anthony Williams what it means to be in "The Zone."

Peace and Love Quilt

The "Peace & Love Quilt," made by the children of Lydia's House dramatically affected by the September 11th attacks, was displayed at the November 2002 Art-O-Matic exhibit held in the old EPA office building on the District of Columbia waterfront. The quilt, pieced together by 20 children ages 5-12 attending the Lydia's House after-school program came together in memory of Leckie Elementary classmate, Bernard Brown (11) and teacher, Hilda Thomas (47) who perished in the Pentagon plane crash.