By Arianna Ross | Executive Director
This week our Executive Director, Arianna Ross shared a experience she had. To read the whole message please click HERE. Below are a few excerpts:
As the Executive Director of a not-for-profit often times the job is filled with meetings, budgets and paperwork. However, when I decided to help turn this organization into a not-for-profit I made a promise to myself and to the organization: I would spend at least part of my time still with the community.
Our home base as an organization is the Washington Metropolitan region. We work with schools from the heart of south east DC to communities in Virginia and Maryland. Over the years we have worked hard to make certain that 90% of our programs are supported at least in part by an outside funding source. Sometimes we get to travel and support schools in other regions
Last week we partnered with York Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina. The teachers asked us to focus on having the children write pieces of historical fiction. They were required to step into the shoes of some of the most famous and instrumental civil rights heroes of our time. It was powerful. I observed students do research on Maya Angelou, Thurgood Marshall, Ruby Bridges, Martin Luther King Junior, and so many others. The questions they asked and statements they made were so insightful.
Two examples were.....
"Ms. Ross, why would someone be mean to another child just because they look different? All children should be allowed to go to school."
"I can't imagine behaving this way. I'm going to grow up and make sure nobody behaves this way to another person."
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