Daydreams as she noticed boats floating atop the Schuylkill River are what first piqued Jayla Stone’s interest. It was what lurked beneath the surface, however, that caused Nasya Fountain pause. Jorja Bunyon-Nelson just needed something to do.
PCR provides free, year-round programming to middle and high school students in the Philadelphia School District, including charter schools. “I’d come home and put ice all over my body,” she said, laughing. “It was so tiring. I thought, ‘I won’t be able to do this all year.’” “I have really bad social anxiety and I just learned to be myself,” she said. “I learned to speak up for myself. I just really stopped caring what people thought about me because I have this group of people who like me for me.”When she first joined PCR in sixth grade, Nasya Fountain wasn’t anxious about meeting new people. It was the water that made her squirm.