SIX NEW BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OPEN

Hundreds of students in Dallas have new after school options in neighborhoods that didn’t have them before after six new Boys and Girls Clubs opened their doors.

The majority of the new locations are in South Dallas or Oak Cliff. The Pleasant Grove neighborhood is getting its first club. The demand is so high that some school campuses were turned down.

The first of six new Boys and Girls Clubs for the city of Dallas opened Tuesday at Uplift Preparatory’s Wisdom Campus in South Dallas.

Two more clubs will open at Knowledge Is Power Program schools in Oak Cliff and Pleasant Grove next week. Three clubs will open at Dallas ISD’s MLK, JJ Rhoads and Elisha M. Pease schools in Oak Cliff the week after that.

The club opening in Pleasant Grove will be the first for that neighborhood.

Boys and Girls Clubs of Dallas hires one staff member for every 20 kids, so they are hiring more people because they’re opening these clubs.