The AHS Girl Effect Club, led by senior Sydney Johnson, raised an impressive $2, 580 dollars from 2011-2013. Thank you to everyone who organized and donated time and money to our local chapter. We could not have raised this much without your generosity! The club members have chosen to give, $215 dollars each, to twelve different organizations through the Global Giving Foundation.  These organizations will provide impoverished young women with specific, powerful and relevant resources to change social and economic dynamics in their communities. For more information about this global movement, please visit www.girleffect.org.

Here are the organizations of choice:

• The Freedom Project: Prevention Through Education

• Teen Girls Health & Empowerment in Uganda

• Unleash the Leaders: 400 Girls in South Sudan

• Building the Futures of 100 Zimbabwean Girls

• Mariposa Center for Girls

• Education & Empowerment for Refugee Girls

• Empower Marginalized Young Women in Ghana

• Empower Teen Mothers Through Education in Cameroon

• Empower Girls Rescued from Sex Slavery in Cambodia

• Equip Rural Kenyan Girls to GET UP out of Poverty

• Help Put Girls at the Forefront of Change in Burma

• Empower African Girls with Hygiene & Education

Check out this article in the NY times about AHS Graduate Adam Parker Smith.

One of our favorite Art Dept. graduates, from Arcata High School, Adam Parker Smith, has been a persistent and prolific artist in Brooklyn for awhile now.  Check out the New York Times article on him published today, March 29.

http://tinyurl.com/bphjax5

Photo Credit: Benjamin Lowry for the New York Times