Project Rousseau

Project Rousseau Project Rousseau is a non-profit organization that helps underserved young people reach their full potential and pursue higher education.

We had some lovely new families join us at the office today! We met them while dropping off supplies for their neighbor ...
09/26/2022

We had some lovely new families join us at the office today! We met them while dropping off supplies for their neighbor at the homeless shelter. Holidays can sometimes be hard to manage with the kids out of school, but we had so much fun at the office! They watched a few movies and raided our fully-stocked kitchen for food and snacks. We are also so grateful we got to send them home with some supplies, including bedding, clothes, female hygiene products, and diapers!

We toured Princeton last week! A huge shoutout to Samantha (Class of 2024) from Budding Branches, who took the time to s...
09/21/2022

We toured Princeton last week! A huge shoutout to Samantha (Class of 2024) from Budding Branches, who took the time to speak to our students about her college experience.

“Look, they include the housekeeping staff and kitchen staff on here!” - one of our students as we examined the composite photographs at the entrance of an eating club

A huge thank you to for having us at their headquarters this past Monday! We are so excited to launch our app, which ai...
08/26/2022

A huge thank you to for having us at their headquarters this past Monday!

We are so excited to launch our app, which aims to help youth find accessible and appropriate shelter placements in a matter of seconds. Thank you so much to , , and our wonderful Junior Board member, Ally Vaughn, for your incredible work and support!

This week on Broadening Horizons, our students got to take a book tour around New York City! We visited and before get...
08/17/2022

This week on Broadening Horizons, our students got to take a book tour around New York City! We visited and before getting signed up for library cards at !

“We had an amazing time! The used bookstore was filled with loads of antiques. I thought it was cool that they existed in our lifetime, reflecting the past to modern human beings.” - Marzia

Today, four of our students are en route to St John’s College Summer Academy for a week exploring ”Inequality and Equali...
07/10/2022

Today, four of our students are en route to St John’s College Summer Academy for a week exploring ”Inequality and Equality”. Thank you to the St. John’s team and their scholarship partners who have made this exciting opportunity a possibility!

Today, four of our students are en route to St. John's College Summer Academy for a week exploring ”Inequality and Equal...
07/10/2022

Today, four of our students are en route to St. John's College Summer Academy for a week exploring ”Inequality and Equality”. Thank you to the St. John’s team and their scholarship partners who have made this exciting opportunity a possibility!

We are proud to partner with - each week our students participate in community service distributing food to members of ...
05/03/2022

We are proud to partner with - each week our students participate in community service distributing food to members of the Crossroads Community!

It’s National College Signing Day and this weekend, many of our students have confirmed their places at colleges across ...
05/03/2022

It’s National College Signing Day and this weekend, many of our students have confirmed their places at colleges across the country. We are proud of all of these students no matter where they are attending. This class have shown commitment, resilience and grit as they completed high school during COVID. Our class of 2022 will attend schools including MIT, UPenn, Cornell, Vanderbilt, Georgetown, Wash U St Louis, SUNY Purchase, CUNY Hunter College, Hostos Community College and many more!

Michal and his mother are one of a handful of Ukrainian families to have made it to New York. They fled their hometown i...
04/19/2022

Michal and his mother are one of a handful of Ukrainian families to have made it to New York. They fled their hometown in the early days on the conflict leaving his father behind. Michal’s mother is fortunate to have a friend in New York with whom she is staying while she finds more stable housing. We are supporting Michal’s mother to enroll him in a PreK program and find activities for Michal to continue his love of sport. Here, Michal is playing and reading with one of our older students, herself a refugee. She fled a war in her own country when she was not much older than Michal.

The past few weeks have been far from normal for Michal, however, his mother is determined to protect him from the horror unfolding in his country and continue his everyday activities. We are doing all that we can to support her in this goal and hope that she can achieve her aim of returning home to Ukraine in the not too distant future.

Today our 10th graders and GED students have been busting myths about college. They had lots of fantastic questions from...
03/21/2022

Today our 10th graders and GED students have been busting myths about college. They had lots of fantastic questions from worries about financial aid to dorm life to whether they could get free food from the dining hall. Now our students are feeling more confident about college and are looking forward to working hard this summer to prepare themselves to apply to top colleges!

Today we were extremely fortunate to receive a donation of warm winter clothing from Collegiate School New YorkThese coa...
12/13/2021

Today we were extremely fortunate to receive a donation of warm winter clothing from Collegiate School New York

These coats have gone straight to many of our students in-need, such as Arturo who fled cartel-violence in his home country this summer. Despite not having permanent housing since he arrived in NYC and facing chronic food insecurity, Arturo is working incredibly hard to learn English and achieve his high school diploma; he brightens up our office everyday after school with his radiant personality and eagerness to learn.

Also taking coats home today were Juana’s and Alma, two sisters who escaped violence in their home country on foot in the midst of the pandemic with Sara’s two-year old son. Their journey to the US was treacherous and they were forcibly separated for many months, however, the sisters are now reunited in a NYC shelter and will soon enrol community college in their quest to build stability for Juana’s son.

Finally, Imani, who lives in a shelter with her three-year old, was so excited to have a choice of coats today. She told our Student Needs Coordinator that this is the first-time ever she has been able to choose what she will wear to school tomorrow.

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