Pop + Politics staff-writer and video-guru Marissa Monroy recently spent a great deal of time getting to know the inner-workings of a local after-school program for the underprivileged, underfunded, and all-around underestimated children of Southcentral L.A.

Its name is A Place Called Home.

Although we have had her piece featured in the In Depth sidebar for a short while now, we feel that it’s such a vital supplement to the paper-thin apparatus that is the Los Angeles public school system, we wanted to give it some more real estate in our Daily Feed.

Check out the video she produced below. And click here (or check the sidebar) to read her written reflections on the experience.