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Redwood City Adobe Youth Voices Peapod Academy
"ANGEL IN MY SKY" is a coming of age story of young man who searches for answers during a tragic time in his life. He learns a powerful lesson in faith, forgiveness, and staying true to your word. Members of the Adobe Youth Voices Peapod Academy worked together to wr…
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Redwood City Adobe Youth Voices Peapod Academy
Members of the Peapod Adobe Youth Voices Academy in Redwood City, Ca, collaborated with representatives from the NOH8 Campaign to create a song and video which promotes the campaign’s “anti-hate” message. The NOH8 Campaign is a photographic silent protest…
16 year-old David Were lives in Kibera, Africa’s largest slum on the outskirts of Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. Basic facilities like the bathroom become an enormous chore as the family uses buckets and plastic bags to dispose of human waste. The b…
When Marisol Becerra was a little girl, she thought that the huge smokestacks in her community, Chicago’s “Little Village,” were a “Cloud Factory.” Years later, as she watched her younger sister Brenda suffer from Asthma, she realized th…
The outskirts of Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, are bleak. While 12 year-old Arthur is proud of his birthplace and home, he has also witnessed the elimination of almost all of Yerevan’s trees for firewood during an energy crisis. Developers have decided…
The idea for Food Wars developed from our young animators’ desire to examine the negative impact of gang violence in their community. Because the group wanted to examine the issue beyond the boundaries of their own community, they chose to use fruits and vegetables t…