Hope Meadows: The Intergenerational Center

The Intergenerational Center (IGC) houses a children's library, a computer room, several rooms for individual tutoring, a kitchen and a large multi-purpose space.

At the IGC, seniors help kids with homework or conduct more formal tutoring sessions, read aloud to young children or help older ones to read, play cards or board games, help them with computers or gather a group to go outside for soccer or basketball - over 90 activities occur every month.

The IGC is also the social hub of Hope Meadows. Every month senior coffees and community potlucks are held along with several special events, such as adoption day celebrations and the Young Ladies' Formal Tea (pictured below).

At the Young Ladies Formal Tea party in the IGC

Baking lessons at the IGC

" I love to tutor.
It is such a pleasure to
see a small face shine with
an 'awakening'. What a challenge
to find just what each individual
child has missed in the
search for knowledge."

- a Hope senior