With all the challenges of 2023, we're more determined than ever—we have to be!

In 2017 the Kumdo @ KIPP program began at the KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy in Camden, NJ. This program provides free training in the very exclusive martial art of Kumdo (more commonly recognized as Kendo) to KIPP’s Lanning Square Middle School students. This program had been heralded in publications such as The Philadelphia Inquirer(It's Called the 'Golf of Martial Arts’). The first year of the program was a great success and was subsequently expanded at the request of the KIPP Academy to include primary students. It was soon identified that graduating KIPP Lanning Square Middle School scholars would no longer have the ability to train in Kumdo under the Kumdo @ KIPP program. It was also identified that in order to provide the fullest Kumdo training experience to Kumdo @ KIPP students, said students would need to train at greater frequencies and at the SYK Sword Academy of Cherry Hill, NJ. This led to the genesis of this Not For Profit—Enter The Johnsons.  Enter The Johnsons (ETJ) raises funds to financially sponsor Kumdo training for Kumdo @ KIPP Program students and alumni.  ETJ soon plans to provide other historically challenged youth in the Delaware Valley Region, the funding and support to train in other types of quality martial arts. 

ETJ

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