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peterbug training academy
John "Peter Bug" Matthews is a man with a trade, with dignity, and with a mission, according to articles in the Washington Post (1997, mid-September) and The Boston Globe (1997, September 21). His neighborhood is Southeast Washington D.C., and he is a 48-year-old teacher at Phelps High School. But he has also run the Peter Bug Shoe Academy since 1977, where ten of his students find part-time employment each year. Over the years, John Matthews has taken many kids off the streets, helped some out of the criminal justice system, set up summer employment programs, and taught nearly 500 students. During the 1970s and 1980s, there was funding for his programs. Most of that has now dried up, so Matthews has to get by with an occasional gift and his own money. Customers pay only for materials at the shoe academy. The neglect of the U.S. capital’s inner city is sad; its people have been the victims of political maneuverings and compromise. Youth work is vitally needed here.

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