1st Saturdays is the monthly volunteer day strategy at schools to advance a towards a vision called #familyhood Tweets are by David N. Roach
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ALT “The vision called Familyhood kicks off in 2023 with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Day of Service on January 16th, 2023 and every 1st Saturday of the month starting March 4th”, says, David N. Roach, Co-founder of The Familyhood Connection and author of The Familyhood Handbook. Familyhood is a global vision that defines schools as the center of the communities development and the communities means of production, the production of Alumni / Alumnae. MLK Day of Service is one day a year thousands, if not millions choose projects in their community to volunteer in their community. “While, this is a good start or rather a great start, it is not enough to actually change the conditions many of our communities face each and every day,” says David Roach. He continues, ” the gesture of volunteers making a difference is a great start, but it doesn’t stick to the community being able to empower itself… 1st Saturdays, representing the 1st Saturday of each month to volunteer, is to reinforce it.
ALT The poster features 6 Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals from the 2020 class and reads "Applications Now Open".
ALT David Roach, Author of "From The People Up" will read from of his E-Book "From The People Up" - followed by Q and A session from audience. About this event "From the People Up" - outlines a systemic approach of community development that utilizes schools and their extended inter-generational population as the center of the communities development - I call it Familyhood for short. "From the People Up" gives a closer look at Familyhood and its "do now" strategy 1st Saturdays (which represents the 1st Saturday of each month to volunteer at schools, while updating and recruiting new members into the schools Student Government Association, Parent Teacher Association and Alumni Association. These three organizations along with community partners are the schools "Familyhood". The main goal is to plant the seed in the minds of the youth to see themselves as future Alumni. Alumni are graduates who return to mentor generation of student government leaders.
