Slideshow!

So this is a video slideshow I made that we will be showing while we table this week. But since we can't really play sound in the always loud MGC I figured I'd upload it here too so that you could hear it. It's pictures of the kids that I took and some other people on my trip took and sound from the video that I am pretty sure I already posted of the kids dancing, but is still pretty cool to listen to. Enjoy!

-Katie

Tabling

After a very stressful week of arguing with University Event Scheduling and sending tons of e-mails to everyone in my group, we can finally start collecting money! We are going to be in MGC on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 11-2. So come visit us!

We're going to have a slideshow with pictures of the kids and if I have time tomorrow I'm going to make some hand-outs about it and try to put it in Today @ AU. But since I just found out, about ten minutes ago, I hope it will all work! Hopefully we'll see you this week!

We can start!!!!

So we've been working on figuring out ways to actually support these kids and get the mosquito nets that they desperately need. We finally have a game plan and we're going to start tabling next week to raise money. Patrick contacted some organizations around D.C. but none of them really wanted to donate money to us, which is understandable since they all have their own issues that they need money for. Courtney's high school is collecting money and her mom is placing a jar where she works, which is a good start. At the end of this week we're going to work on putting a slideshow together and making some posters to raise awareness and to try to let people know we're going to be collecting money for this so hopefully it works. But at least it's a start. When we hear back from Isaac, one of the teachers at Fountain of Hope, we'll add more information about the kids but for now we'll work with what we have.

I finally got to write an article about the issue of street children for AFJN and it's going to be published in their next newsletter. I also posted a link to this blog so people could learn more, so if you're an AFJN supporter and you're reading this -- Welcome and I hope you are willing to support our project and donate a few dollars, any amount is perfect! I really liked the way the article turned out because it's something I really care about and I wanted to make it perfect. After it's printed I'll post it up here or post a link to it or my other article, which is about the ICC and not so much about street children.

I'll update this next week after we meet and let everyone know how we're doing with the tabling! We have the support of the Community Service Center so we know we can table and nothing is stopping us except the piles of homework that we all have to do, but I'm definitely willing to set that all aside and put a lot of time into helping these amazing kids. :)

See you next week!
-Katie