Community Education

Logan Community Garden

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Location

Logan, WV

United States

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During a week in March 2012, students from the Appalachian Center for Equality's mentoring program at Logan High School and students from  Sandy Spring Friends School worked together tilling the soil, weeding the beds, and planting and watering seeds.  Young children from the Head Start program at Logan PRIDE Community Service visited the garden and were taught by the high school students how to garden.

Dayton Program - Immigrant and Refugee Youth

African refugee youth in Dayton networking with Pan-African students at Earlham College. 

In the winter of 2007, rumors were circulating that the boarded-up house adjacent to the Dayton AFSC office was being occupied by immigrants.  Staff, however, saw no signs of life until the beginning of spring when Migwe Kimemia, the Africa  Peace & Immigration Program Director, spotted children playing outside.  Kimemia was able to communicate with them in Swahili and learned that the rumors were true: a family of African refugees, including 9 children, was, in fact, dwelling there.  The stove was broken, gas was leaking, and they were in this dangerous situation be

Tyree Scott Head Shot

Tyree Scott

The Tyree Scott Leadership Institute (Freedom School) is a powerful participatory experience for young people designed to inspire a lifetime of community involvement. Youth analyze the systems that perpetuate violence and injustice and learn about social change movements, empowering them to promote racial justice, human rights and peace.

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Creating Peace: one tomato plant at a time

Participants working in garden.

On a spring morning people gathered two blocks from Port Street at the Amazing Rose Street community garden to plant vegetables that will eventually be distributed through the Grace-full Living Wellness Center Food Pantry.