For 23 years Liga has been helping kids from Philly’s toughest neighborhoods get off the streets and achieve success. We have found our hearth and home in the “Barrio” and partnered with Impact Services to obtain space for our very own gym and community hub. However, there is lots of work and support needed to continue and maintain a permeant home and haven for our youth. More than 15,000 student-athletes have benefitted from La Liga’s unique mission of sports, academics, character development, and mentoring for two decades plus and hopefully for decades to come. We’ve been serving youth in borrowed facilities and borrowed time, limiting the number of kids we can serve, and creating a waitlist year after year. La Liga theoretically could have served exponentially more kids with a gym of their own. A new gym and community hub for the kids and their families to provide much needed resources addressing poverty and transitional housing capacity is what Liga needs! We appreciate the use of facilities like Edison High School where it all began, and Aspira Educational Campus, Mariana Bracetti, Nueva Esperanza, Lenfest North10, and YMCA, but its time Liga has its own gym! Renting gym time and bouncing between facilities limits the number of children we can serve. A new sports facility, a place to call home, will increase our sports programming by 75%. That’s huge!