Team Kids to Mexico City
Thursday, December 13-16, 2007
Team Kids is a youth leadership, service-learning, non-profit organization based out of Irvine, CA, USA. Team Kids has launched a project to help raise funds and awareness needed to secure educational opportunities for children living in the “Dump City” in Mexico City. Twelve high school students on the Team Kids Youth Council, from California, have partnered with 18 amazing students at a private high school in Mexico City on this innovative and incredible international, collaborative project. Together these students on both sides of our border are committed to raising funds, in partnership with Debujando un Manana Fundacion, to support the building of a charter school for the children who live in the mile square "Dump City."
The children who live in this Dump City only go to school from ages 3-5. After preschool they leave school and go to work in the dump sorting garbage for up to 12 hours a day. Team Kids wants to work, alongside our partners in Mexico City, to expand the school to include Kindergarten, adding an additional year of schooling as funds are available. High school members of the Team Kids Youth Council worked with Kids Helping Kids, a leadership group in Mexico City. Both groups of students spent time in Dump City to meet the people there and learn how to help. The Team Kids Youth Council members captured footage for a documentary to share in the US to inspire others to join the effort to build a school for the children to learn.
A Team Kids delegation, made up of teenagers, young professional mentors, a public school teacher, along with the Team Kids staff and Board Members flew to Mexico City on December 13, and return December 16, 2007.
Team Kids Delegation traveling to Mexico City:
Students: Jenna Walmsley, Mathew Copley, Lauren Hudash, Jordan Blue, Annie Walmsley, Kim McFarland, Jonathan Hudash, Lang Pierce
Adults: Team Kids Board President Laura Baden, Oakley President Colin Baden, Team Kids Founder/CEO Julie Hudash, Irvine Unified Teacher Sharon McCubbin, Young Professional Mentors Victor Espinosa and Taryn Podlas, Ray Hudash, Photographer Linda Lang Pierce.
Click on the link above to see the movie
