Sinorice Lending Helping Hand to South Bronx Students

Many feel Giants WR Sinorice Moss may be spending his time dodging the Turk this summer at camp , but right now he’s using whatever time he may have left as a Giant to do some good.

According to Shelly Banjo of The Wall Street Journal……

The New York Giants wide receiver is launching a program called Dare to Dream, which asks teachers and high school students to take a pledge expressing their goals, such as improving their grades by the end of the year or applying to college. It then rewards students when they achieve their goals. This year,he ran a pilot program with Sobro, the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation, which runs after-school programs for schools in the Bronx.

Throughout the school year, the foundation works with students to monitor progress and provides support to schools such as books and classroom supplies. Students who accomplish their goals will receive a certificate signed by Mr. Moss and other rewards, such as tickets to a game or a chance to speak at their schools.

“I tell these kids that it’s not going to happen overnight, I didn’t just wake up and become a professional athlete,” Mr. Moss says. “I worked hard and went to college and if these kids and their teachers can dare to dream, they will accomplish what they set out to do.”

As a person who spends some of his time in the SoBro (the South Bronx, my wife is a high school principal there), I am glad to finally see someone from one of the local professional sports teams finally turn their focus, energy and resources to this all-too-often neglected part of the city.  The South Bronx, by the way, is the poorest congressional district in the United States.

Kudos to Sinorice and his brother, Santana, and the Moss Foundation for their generosity and benevolence.