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Last updated by renabear on Sat, 01/19/2008 - 23:19.
Hey,
What I would like to do is get my community to start a community garden. I think I'd like to start with recruiting some of my peers, in order to build the community, give them hope and try to push out some of the drugs and violence.
Thanks
Last updated by lexedy on Sat, 12/29/2007 - 19:47.
High School Leadership Program
The Institute for Women's Leadership High School Leadership Certificate Program (HSLP) is a women’s leadership development program for underrepresented high school students in Jersey City, New Jersey. The purpose of the program, which was launched in 2005 as an outgrowth of the IWL Leadership Scholars Certificate Program for Rutgers students, is to provide high school young women opportunities to develop leadership skills through a structured after school curriculum which is created by and mentored by college women at Rutgers.
Last updated by koma on Wed, 10/31/2007 - 12:26.
Goals:
-Find an unused plot in a low-income urban environment and transform it by planting a healthy diverse garden, where the food grown can be sold for almost nearly free to community members.
-Provide youth the opportunity to grow and harvest their own plot and/or have a designated area for creating a mural on the surrounding walls that will promote social justice, peace, and/or cultural understanding.
-Providing an encouraging, positive, and creating environment for youth and staff.
-Providing teachers and staff with materials/resources necessary to successfully educate their students
Last updated by ChristineGuti on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 01:31.
The name of my company is Slate Theory. It is a teeshirt and hoody fashion line that uses artistic expression, the power and impact of fashion, and the buying power that consumer's hold to create a brand built upon the principle of ubuntu "I am because we are".
A hip-hop creative funky urban street chic vibe with a social mission as the foundation of the entire venture. The corporate social responsibility aspect is not merely an attatched word to boost sales, but it is truly devised based on giving back locally and globally.
Last updated by smangalji on Wed, 08/15/2007 - 11:21.
These past two summers, my sister and I taught English and read books to kids aged two to six in early childhood madrassas, or, schools, in Mombasa, Kenya. The schools are a project of AKF USA, an organization that focuses on “seeking sustainable solutions to poverty, hunger, illiteracy and ill-health with special emphasis on the needs of resource-poor areas.” One of the schools, called the Khairat Nursery School, was located in the city, and the other, the Rahma Majaoni School, was set in a very rural area.
