Students Help to Keep Girls Strong, Safe
Smyrna's Village Green is a beautiful complex with a fountain and brick walkways to be enjoyed by city residents and visitors alike. On Sunday, April 24, the walkways were turned into an open air art gallery at the first annual Chalkfest to raise money for Safe Girls Strong Girls Camp CADI, a unique camp for sexually abused girls. And AIS students were there to help.
Artists Kareem Rosshandler and Arnaud Pages tried their hands at sidewalk art for the first time. Using Prang FreeArt chalk in popping colors, Kareem's decorated squares in his garage graffiti style for Worley, Schilling and Randall, Inc., insurance brokers, and Fuzion Hair Studio. Arnaud created an international work to represent Education, Travel & Culture, an international exchange student organization. Both artists learned the difficulties of working on a large palette in an unfamiliar medium but were able to create stunning works. Both also readily expressed an interest in participating again next year. Also on hand were Dana Furqueron, Roz Santos, Torryn Jennings-Hill, Dina Goodman and Yasmin Rosshandler to assist in set-up, drawing, face painting, children's chalking and cleanup.
The effort raised nearly $3,000 to help send 13 girls to the inaugural session of camp from May 27 to June 1 in partnership with Camp Twin Lakes. Safe Girls Strong Girls is dedicated to breaking the silence surrounding childhood sexual abuse. To find out more, go to www.safegirlsstronggirls.org.