OH HAPPY DAY!!!
We are excited to announce that Arts For Our Children, Inc. has once again been awarded the DC Children’s Youth Investment Trust grant for iThings 2 Collard Greens 2013 Summer Camp for Girls!!! This grant allows girls ages 5-12 in Wards 4 and 5 to...Benefit Yard Sale! Sat April 27 9:00 am
COME SUPPORT A GOOD CAUSE! (and tell your friends) ANNUAL YARD SALE To Benefit iThings 2 Collard Greens Summer Camp for Girls SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2013 1400 INGRAHAM STREET, NW 9:00 am til dusk Lots of Goodies! Furniture, Books, Kitchen Items, Clothes, Shoes, Unique...Kathy’s PEP Talk
To all of you who came out Saturday night for our fundraiser, I give thanks!! It was soo much fun and a huge success and could not have happened without you! Here is a clip done last year regarding the camp. . Just got it from Peppy! Enjoy. . Love and light –...Jazz fundraiser for girls summer program
Kayla Bell, 8, can’t wait to return to camp this year. That’s why a Feb. 23 fundraiser at Seekers Church is so important to her and other girls who attended a summer program called iThings 2 Collard Greens. IThings refer to things like cell phones and...In Memory of Nannie Helen Burroughs
Nannie Helen Burroughs
(May 2, 1879 – May 20, 1961)
was an African American educator, orator, religious leader, and businesswoman. She gained national recognition for her 1900 speech "How the Sisters Are Hindered from Helping," at the National Baptist Convention.
Burroughs created a creed of racial self-help through her program of the three Bs-the Bible, the bath, and the broom. The Bible, the bath, and the broom stood for a clean life, a clean body, and a clean house. She believed domestic work should be professionalized and even unionized.
Burroughs trained her students to become respectable employees by becoming pious, pure, and domestic, but not submissive. She emphasized the importance of being proud black women to all students, by teaching African-American history and culture through a required course in the Department of Negro History.