We support the vision of #Familyhood!
#familyhood is a vision that identifies schools as the center for community development and utilizes the schools inter-generational connections to increase governance from within the school to improve the school and its surrounding community. #Familyhood is driven by two main mottos: 1)The Friends of School motto: which states,” every school shall have a Student Government Association (SGA), Parent Teacher Association (PTA), Alumni Association” and 2) The Mo’ Better Food motto: which states, “every school shall have a garden, a farmers market and a grocery store.”
To advance towards #Familyhood, each school should implement #1stSaturdays. #1stSaturdays is the official monthly volunteer/recruitment day that promotes collaboration between the schools three main school based membership organizations (SGA,PTA, ALUMNI) as described above. #1stSaturdays represents the first Saturday of each month as the day these organizations and community partners come out to support #Familyhood’s two main motto’s.
#1stSaturdays merges food security, local governance, technology and entrepreneurship training for the world.
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To illustrate, once the schools identify where their garden will be or if they already have one, how to expand it, #1stSaturdays promotes students to utilize technology hands-on to design it and promote it. The same process applies to “every school having a farmers market and grocery store.” Once the students with parents, alumni and community leaders/organizations outline these school- based food related enterprises, they will utilize technology to promote them to their school and beyond.
Join us by participating in the #1stSaturdays-monthly volunteer/recruitment day which is the “do now” of advancing a community from the people up!
