Ruth Azar is the Founder & Director of The Second Mile Center of Detroit. She also happens to be the spouse of one of our newest members, Scott Matthews.
Ms. Azar says a calling from God led her to open the Center in 2007, which serves over 200 children, ages 3 to 19. On a daily/weekly basis, the Center offers after-school programs, a summer camp, provides donated free clothing, furniture, and baby goods, holds a Monday Night Community Dinner, and runs a computer lab. It also brings in a no-cost annual mobile health fair and takes the children on field trips to expand their horizons. Mixed in all of this is ministry work, spreading the word of God.
The Center operates on a very tight budget of $150,000 plus $100,000 in-kind services. Even with these limited resources, it is able to offer the programs listed above and also prepared 10,000 meals in 2019.