New York – Founded in January 2020, the Inter Campus USA chapter was forced to cease all activities at the end of February due to the pandemic. It’s been a difficult year for everyone, which has given the organizers a chance to invest their resources into alternative proposals to in-person presence, not just in distance learning but also in games, such as quizzes on football, sport and Inter Campus. This is thanks to the work done by Physical Education teachers Jamye and Brian, who, alongside their institutional role, also serve as coaches at Inter Campus.

Support for the entire project also comes from the principal of Puerto Rican origin, Ivan Rodriguez, who has championed the Inter Campus cause. In this corner of the Latino world on American soil, the project helps children living in the neighborhood—virtually all of them second-generation immigrants—and by extension their parents, who speak Spanish and face grave financial difficulties. Families are often large or they share small living spaces.

Increasingly aware and alert to research and the measurement of the impact of its own work, Inter Campus started collecting data upon the founding of the chapter, as part of a small research project on resilience (Pearson): a questionnaire submitted to the children with 60 questions, which will be followed by an analysis of the data, in order to have more feedback on the personalities and the resilience level of the children involved in the project.