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“CYP’s purpose is to provide Cambridge youth and teens with a just, joyful and caring community where they forge healthy relationships, discover who they are, and develop new skills,” the City of Cambridge said.
Flavor Flav standing next to a group of children after he helped donate sports gear to a Cambridge youth center City of Cambridge
Rapper Flavor Flav donated a bundle of sports equipment to a local youth center earlier this week in partnership with Harvard College and Franklin Sports.
Flavor Flav, 67, gave a variety of athletic equipment to the Frisoli Youth Center in Cambridge to support after-school programs, the City of Cambridge said in a press release.
The hip-hop legend donated basketballs, dodgeballs, volleyballs, soccer balls and nets, tennis balls, kickballs, football and football gloves, basketball pumps, and cornhole equipment, the City said.
The youth center helps children stay active within their community and physically. The center has after-school programs for children in 4th through 8th grade and evening programs for 14- to 19 year-olds, the City said.
Frisoli Youth Center is one of five city-run youth centers in Cambridge. The center, on Willow Street, is run by the Department of Human Service Programs.
“CYP’s purpose is to provide Cambridge youth and teens with a just, joyful and caring community where they forge healthy relationships, discover who they are, and develop new skills,” the City said.
Flavor Flav is a founding member of the hip-hop group Public Enemy and a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
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