For Our Children

A Day of Service

Over the last month, I've told you about many of the fun and
inspiring events we have planned to commemorate Children's
Defense Fund's 50th anniversary. They include our Celebration of
Joy at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, as
well as our Child Well-being in America: National Policy Forum and our
celebration of CDF Freedom Schools' 30th anniversary, both at
Howard University.

These events will highlight our organization's relentless
efforts to improve the circumstances of young people living across
America. However, there is one more special event we have scheduled
that I would also like to bring attention to. On Saturday, November 4,
we will hold our first ever Day of Service as a tribute to CDF's
Founder and President Emerita, Marian Wright Edelman.

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Mrs. Edelman's work these last five decades embodies all we hold
dear at Children's Defense Fund. She committed herself to making
sure every child, no matter their background, would have the
opportunity to live their lives with dignity, hope, and joy.
Furthermore, she carried out her work as a committed servant leader,
never one to back down from large political and financial interests
that did not share the goals of her extraordinary vision. So, it is
only fitting that our day of service be named in her honor.

We will kick off the day at Children's Defense Fund's
national headquarters, before sending our volunteers to participate in
four different, concurrent service events around the Washington, D.C.,
area later that morning.

The Social Justice School, our CDF Freedom Schools site in Northeast
D.C., will host our Liberation Libraries event. Here, volunteers and
community members will assemble and curate six classroom libraries
featuring banned books with handwritten affirmations to middle school
scholars at the Social Justice School. Meanwhile, at the Washington
Youth Garden, another CDF Freedom Schools partner, participants will
support routine maintenance in the fruit and vegetable garden that
provides fresh, healthy foods to help fight food insecurity across the
District of Columbia.

Then, in partnership with the playspace non-profit organization
KABOOM!, Children's Defense Fund volunteers will hold a public
conversation with Roots Public Charter School scholars and their
families to help shape a new playground on that campus. Roots Public
Charter School is a future CDF Freedom Schools program site.

Our final service activity will take place at Amidon Field in
Southwest D.C., where we will ask volunteers and community members to
stand up and move to end the cycle of youth homelessness by
participating in a friendly game of kickball with StandUp for Kids DC
and our CDF Freedom Schools.

All these activities speak to our mission of building community for
our nation's youngsters and unleashing the joy in growing up.
Each service event provides opportunities for our young people to
thrive. That is why I am proud to represent this organization. Since
Mrs. Edelman founded Children's Defense Fund in 1973, a lot has
changed in the world. But our promise to help America's children
and youth has not.

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For our children,

Rev. Dr. Starsky Wilson
President and CEO

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