Workshop at a middle school in the Bronx (New York City, USA)

As part of the Keep A Child Alive Student AIDS Summit in November 2008, youth participants took on the role of youth leaders and ran workshops with children and youth at various middle schools in the Bronx (New York City, USA).

All the middle-school students watched the Alicia Keys' documentary on AIDS and then the youth leaders paired up and discussed the video with individual classes. After the discussion, the youth leaders oversaw a letter-writing activity in which students wrote letters to AIDS orphans at 2 orphanages in Africa and a drawing activity in which students created their own small square that was pieced together with other squares the next day to form the amazing collage quilts seen in the background here.

I was lucky to be able to run one of these workshops with an amazing Grade 7 class!