05.14.07
Youths roll up their sleeves to honor San Fran’s Chinatown
Amy Wu, 16, and Lily Yee, 17, load up with paint to do away with graffiti (but hopefully not the mural) in San Francisco’s Chinatown.
The San Francisco Chronicle covers the Adopt-An-Alleyway Youth Project, which has young people cleaning up Chinatown’s streets, giving tours of the neighborhood, visiting the elderly and providing day care.
Seventeen-year-old Jessica Kyo says of the program, “You meet a bunch of cool people. And when you’re trying to beautify something, you can’t help but form a bond.”
The project started in 1991, and has just received a Community Hero award from the Crissy Field Center, an environmental education center in the Bay Area.
For more about Adopt-An-Alleyway, go here.
Susanna Luong said,
October 4, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Adopt An Alleyway (AAA) is not just a youth program volunteering in the community but also a place to make new friends and build the generation gap between seniors and children. AAA youth are there as a role model for children during one of their monthly event, Super Sunday. Also as listeners to seniors living in Chinatown’s single room occupancy, SRO, bring a little loudness and activity into their homes.
I believe there should be more youth organization like AAA to beautify and make a better place for all in our community. GO AAA AND CCDC!!!!!!!