The Fun Never Stops at Camp HAUP in the Summer

Camp HAUP is the summer youth program where the fun never stops. For children ranging in age from 5 to 14 years old, the camp offers dancing, stepping,  reading, writing and math, sports, weekly outings. HAUP provides lunch and snacks for the children. All of this at an affordable cost: the registration fee is $200 and the weekly fee is $100. Base camp is at Sacred Heart Church Auditorium, 115-15 221st street. Camp is a godsend to working parents who can drop their children off as early as 7:00 AM and pick them up by 6:00 PM. To register and for more information, call 718-527-3776. Camp HAUP is held during the entire month of July from July 6 to July 31. Don’t wait, nor hesitate: Camp HAUP can’t be beat!

The picture gallery below shows some of the activities that children did in the past.

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Save the document on your computer, fill it out, print and bring the form and registration fee to HAUP at 221-05 Linden Blvd, Cambria Heights, NY. We will happily be of service to you.

HAUP calls for accelerated implementation of language access policies in NY

Last May, the NYC Council’s Committee on  Immigration invited HAUP to submit testimony regarding implementation of Executive Order, an order issued by Mayor Michael Bloomberg of the City of NY which directed City Agencies to develop and implement policies on language access to facilitate the “successful integration of immigrant New Yorkers into the civic, economic and cultural life of the City.” Below are excerpts from the statement submitted to the consideration of members of the Committee by HAUP.

The Haitian Presence in New York City

Haitians began to settle legally in large numbers in New York in the 1960s. They left behind a beloved homeland which was unfortunately ruled by one of the most terrible dictatorships in the western hemisphere. Thanks to the family reunification provisions of the 1965 Immigration Act, their relatives eventually joined them in their new homes in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. The Haitian émigrés were soon joined by asylum-seekers who came by the boatload and on tourist visas as the political and economic situation continued to worsen in Haiti through the 1970s and 1980s.

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