This past week in Knoxville, TN the Children’s Defense Fund hosted their national training for the Freedom Schools and this summer I have been given the opportunity to work with this group of enthusiastic adults in an effort to promote education to everyone, yet focus on those who need it the most.  My site is located on Broad Street in downtown Columbus at the Broad Steet United Methodist Church and for the next six weeks five interns, one project director, and myself will reach out to 50 children promoting literacy in a fun and interactive manner.  Each morning we will start off with Harambee, which is thirty minutes of togetherness, singing, and motivation.  The children then will split up by grade level to read books, do activities, and make friends with those who they might have never known. Every afternoon we will either do more activities or take the children on a mini-field trip to educational locations around Columbus.

Tomorrow is the first day of the Freedom Schools and I have only high expectations for this summer, I can already tell, will be enriching.