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Reaching out to Minnesota's Senators and Representatives (July 2007)
Rose Baumann of U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar's office spoke to nearly 100 scholars from Kwanzaa Freedom School about efforts to cover all kids in Washington, D.C.
Later that day at U.S. Senator Norm Coleman's office, Vicki Tigwell, and Andy Burmeister from Coleman's staff received letters on health care coverage written by more than 150 scholars at the St. Paul Freedom School. The Senate is now debating the State Children's Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) and plans to reauthorize the program this year.
Also on that day, scholars at the Minneapolis La Creche Freedom School held marched to let people in Minneapolis know about the importance of health care for children.
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The Children's Defense Fund works with community sponsors, parents, young adults and community leaders to forge a new vision for working with and educating children through the CDF Freedom Schools program.
CDF Freedom Schools programs provide critical summer and after-school enrichment through a model curriculum that supports children and families around five essential components: high quality academics, parent and family involvement, civic engagement and social action, intergenerational leadership development, and nutrition, health and mental health.
An initiative that grew out of the Children's Defense Fund's Black Community Crusade for Children®, CDF Freedom SchoolsSM program sites offer a unique vision of education, rooted in the cultural traditions of literacy, service, and advocacy.
SUMMER 2008 SCHEDULE
Minneapolis Freedom Schools
June 23-August 1, 2008
Lucy Laney Elementary School at Cleveland Park
3333 Penn Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55412
Call (612) 668-2224
Kwanzaa Church in Minneapolis
For scholars age 6 to 18
June 23 to July 25
3700 Bryant Avenue North
Minneapolis, MN 55411
Contact Edwin Irwin
612-521-7797 office
612-481-0738 cell
This years program will run for five weeks and focus on "telling your own
story." Students will explore storytelling through Print and Broadcast
Journalism by writing autobiographies, creating a summer Documentary project
and being taught how to tell stories by local community members.
Read the Kwanzaa Flyer
St. Paul Freedom School/St. Paul Area Council of Churches
June 23 to July 25
Trinity Catholic School
835 E. 5th Street
St. Paul, MN 55106
Call 651-789-3853
Click here for St. Paul Application
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