Hands for a Bridge (HFB) provides high school youth with opportunities to explore issues surrounding social justice in their local, regional, and international communities. In collaboration with established partners, students engage in intensive artistic dialogue to build bridges of understanding across chasms of race, culture, wealth, and poverty. These student leaders will emerge as transformed global citizens with vision and resources to affect vital change in our world.
“Honesty and humility are the catalysts through which the world can be both heard and transformed.”
-James Clowes
Hands for a Bridge 2007-2008 news:
8.27.07
The new HFB year is well under way. Last spring Jen Fox, Carolyn Kenney Hall, and Kara Macdonald joined Karen Grace, Doug Holwerda, and Tom Nolet in leading the program. In May we picked twenty eight new students to travel to Northern Ireland and South Africa and have had a wonderful summer getting acquainted, sharing pot-lucks, and washing cars. Fundraising is off to a roaring start and due to the success of our car washes and letter writing campaign, we’ve raised just over one third of our total fundraising goal for the year! We look ahead to other fun events and urge anyone interested in joining the HFB community:
- October 11th-12th: Dance-a-thon at Magnuson Park
- November 17th: Auction at Mary Gates Hall
- December 29th-January 13th: Roosevelt hosts visiting South African teachers
- February 14th-March 2nd: HFB students and staff travel to Northern Ireland and South Africa
For more detailed information about the year’s activities, including a month-by-month breakdown of all planned fundraising and traveling events, please download the HFB 2007-2008 Calendar.