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YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
Members paid an annual membership fee to use the facilities and services of the association. Because of political, physical, and population changes in Boston during the second half of the century, the Boston YMCA established branch divisions to satisfy the needs of local neighborhoods. From its early days, the Boston YMCA offered educational ...
The Ahwatukee Foothills News is a weekly newspaper that serves the Ahwatukee district of the city of Phoenix.Its education and sports coverage mainly revolves around the two high schools serving the district: Mountain Pointe High School and Desert Vista High School (both part of the Tempe Union High School District).
YMCA SCUBA Program (also known as Y-SCUBA) was an underwater diving training program operated by YMCA of the USA from 1959 to 2008. It was the first nationally organised underwater diving instruction program offered in the United States of America .
The Ahwatukee Foothills Village is bordered by Interstate 10 to the east, South Mountains to the north, and the Gila River Indian Community as well as Loop 202 to the west and south. [1] Ahwatukee is geographically isolated from the rest of Phoenix, and was once seen as appropriate for semi-rural development. [16] [28]
1882 Boston YMCA building. The YMCA of Greater Boston, founded in 1851, was the first YMCA in the United States. The organization began as a modest Evangelical association, and by the late nineteenth century, had become a major social service organization dedicated to improving the lives of young men.
Washington Mutual, Inc. (often abbreviated to WaMu) was an American savings bank holding company based in Seattle.It was the parent company of Washington Mutual Bank, which was the largest savings and loan association in the United States until its collapse in 2008.
The Kampala YMCA is located in Wandegeya, Kampala, Uganda. The building dates from 1962, and houses the non-denominational YMCA Comprehensive Institute, for vocational training . The basement is the Kampala Music School, independent of the YMCA, which trains for ABRSM examinations.