May 22, 2007 - 5:13pm — sassafras
Three new teams, three great events!
Congratulations Teams on your FIRST EVER Youth Venture events!
Each of these three new teams moved right from Selection Panel to making their programs a reality!
In early May, YEAH! hosted an HIV/AIDS awareness supper with all proceeds going directly to help fight AIDS in Africa. The team shared information about HIV/AIDS with the audience, served each attendee a single bowl of porridge to represent the typical food eaten every day in Africa by HIV/AIDS victims, served a meal of traditional African foods, and supplied the evening's entertainment by putting on a dance performance.
Free Burma hit the streets for the first time, selling T-shirts to raise awareness of the human rights violations occurring in Burma. The team went to the University and sold their FREE BURMA t-shirts, with attached information on Burma, dirt cheap to local college students.
The First Five Pages organized the free publication and donation of the top five pre-school age stories written by their sixth grade English class. Student volunteers accompanied the stories to their new home at the Oakdale Head Start and read them out-loud to the pre-school children served there.