DukePals, a big sibling organization, provides friendship and support to the children of Duke employees. The group also works to improve student-employee relations. Duke Volunteers for the Red Cross. Duke Red Cross works with the local American Red Cross to help people in need of emergency assistance, to facilitate community education, and to organize blood and bone marrow registration drives. Edgemont Tutoring works closely with the staff of the Edgemont Community Center to meet the needs of elementary school children from the Few Gardens public housing complex.
Volunteers offer area youngsters academic tutoring and friendship.
Members of this group provide after school tutoring and mentoring for children in the MacDougald Terrace neighborhood. For Parents Only. This group organizes recreational activities for the parents of young patients being treated in the DUMC Pediatrics Department. Future Is Now. Now is a mentorship and African rites of passage program for fifth, sixth, and seventh grade girls.