Artivism GCC NYC Summer 2010

For 4 weeks in the summer of 2010, eight brooklyn students have been part of the Mercy Corps Artivism summer program. The program is a partnership between Urban Assembly High School of Law and Justice, Momentum Project and Mercy Corps Action Center. Students spent one day a week volunteering at the Momentum Project Food Pantry — serving and preparing lunch — one day learning about poverty and hunger globally and locally, and a third participating in theater and creative writing workshops.

At any time over the past month, you could find students bagging loaves of bread, serving lasagna, sorting through carrots, discussing the implications of poverty in New York City, talking with Global Citizen Corps Students in Iraq and writing manifestos from the point of view of people struggling with hunger. As the program grew, so did the students' empathy for people struggling with hunger and enthusiasm for making a difference in their communities.

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Education

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• youth
• urban
• arts
• education