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Activists:
12
Facilitators:
1st
Session: The kids were asked to fill out questionnaires
(yan-community-issues-form and the yan-member- interest-form)on
issues affecting their lives in the community. The kids'
parents were also invited to this first session which
was celebrated with pizza and drinks and introduction
of YAN objectives and past projects.
Two issues were selected by voting for the most relevant
issues from the list of issues mentioned by the activists.
The selected issues were Drunk Driving and Garbage Disposal.
2nd Session:As
part of analysis, the activists went out into the community
to conduct interviews with the residents on the relevance
of the two issues in their community. The facilitators
also invited a cop(as a friend of YAN) to talk about
Drunk Driving to the activists. At the end of this analysis,
Garbage Disposal proved to be the more relevant issue
in the community. So it was decided that the project
would be based on Garbage Disposal.
3rd Session:The
third session involved brainstorming with the activists
on how to go about building awareness about proper Garbage
Disposal in the community. One of the activists suggested
the idea of 'Trash Olympics' that would involve several
games based on littering and recycling.
4th Session:The
actual games and events for the 'Trash Olympics' were
carried out in this session. All the activists participated
in these games that were co-ordinated by the facilitators.
Some of the events that were organized were:
- The activists organized themselves in teams and competed
for maximum garbage collection in different areas.
- A relay race was conducted in which the activists
got inside trash bags, hopped and collected trash bottles.
-T-shirts, flyers and banners about the 'Trash Olympics'
were created.
- A small movie was created by the activists at the
end describing the whole process.
5th Session:
The final session was dedicated to celebration and exhibition
with the activists, facilitators, other members and
kids of the Charlestown and other Clubhouses.The celebration
included a pizza and lemonade treat with display of
'Trash Olympics' posters and the movie about 'Trash
Olympics'.
The project
was fun and the group ended up collecting about 4 bags
of litter from the streets, most of them from around
convenience stores and teen places.
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