Happy New Year, SCFP friends!
We're back in business here in Sunflower, and we are looking forward to a packed semester. In addition to our regular academic routine of nightly study sessions and Saturday School, we have an MLK Day workshop in North Carolina, a spring break drama trip to Texas, ongoing fundraising for our France trip, our first black belt tests, and, perhaps most exciting, a documentary video and web site project.
Let me tell you about this video project, which is the brainchild of our Program Coordinator, Greg McCoy. We received a $22,000 grant from CTCNet, a national network of media programs - we were one of seven organizations selected out of 85 applicants - to fund "Planning Your Future By Mapping Your Past." Using digital technology, our students will make a documentary and build a web site on the local civil rights movement with a focus on inspiring young people today to become leaders in their communities. The finished product will be presented at a national conference in Cleveland in June. The kids have a lot of work ahead of them!
This theme of finding inspiration in the past to propel action in the present will be the focus of two workshops that the SCFP students and staff will present as part of Duke University's MLK Weekend. We hope that all our friends and staff alumni in the Durham-Chapel Hill area will come out to see us at some point during the weekend. Let me know if you are interested!
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our December fundraising drive -- many of you are now sporting sharp SCFP shirts. We also appreciate all the postcards that folks have sent. Michelle Johansen, our geography guru, is now working with the kids on Asia, and we are festooning the LEAD Center with Asian postcards and decorations.
As always, let me know if you have any suggestions.
Take care,
Chris Myers
Sunflower County Freedom Project
120 Delta Avenue
P.O. Box 701
Sunflower, MS 38778
662-207-4744
www.sunflowerfreedom.org
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