The mission of HYPE is to empower people with the knowledge they need to be successful and self-sufficient. We accomplish our mission by providing parents/caregivers and their children with access to educational enrichment activities outside normal school hours. HYPE’s vision is to provide books to K-12th grade scholars that reflect their own images of Black and other underrepresented people’s experiences, accomplishments and perspectives; Ensure the youth and young adults served know they have a voice and it matters now more than ever; Prepare and support scholars and young adults to be activists who demand change and justice both now and in the future; Offer the program to 500 K-12th graders in Houston’s Sunnyside/South Park area.