Our mission at HRF is to improve young lives and create a positive impact across South LA. We invest in students, their families, schools, and communities. We bring youth and parents from Watts and Compton to an ACA accredited overnight camp for a safe, nurturing, and enriching experience at no cost to them. We use that experience to foster positive discourse, provide tools for reflection, and help young men and women set goals to rewrite the future of their schools and communities. To further anchor our presence and impact in the community, we offer a free, six-week summer program directly in Watts. Camp Ubuntu Watts allows us to build on the success of the weekend retreats and provide much-needed enrichment directly where our youth and their families live, specifically during the summer months when crime rates are highest. We leverage the camp experience as a vehicle for personal empowerment and social change, helping disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline by providing an environment and programs that utilize proven social-emotional learning fundamentals.