The Saturday Event

This morning, eight high schoolers , two college students, and myself (plus two families and a random set of kids, who all stopped and joined in on the spur of the moment) spread out over a section of pavement near the dock at H*ward Am*n and drew 4,931 stick figures with sidewalk chalk.

Our youngest participant was right about four years old... and more interested in the fact that people were drawing with chalk in the park than what we were actually doing. :)

Giving out the story cards was a little more difficult than we thought it would be. (I promise that the postcard will not bite you!) People all over the park were talking about it, though, and explaining to each other that the drawings were there because, "4,931 people die from AIDS every day." Goal: completed.

It was very cool to see something that the Focus Month kids had come up with being played out in real life and actually getting people's attention. One of the girls even went home and contacted a local news station. Turns out, they are showing pictures during the evening news tonight.

Not too shabby for a first event! Good job girls!!

(And, many thanks to everyone who helped out this morning!)