Michelle Obama visited over 100 students and graduates from YouthBuild USA programs, a youth and community development program that simultaneously addresses core issues facing low-income communities: housing, education, employment, crime prevention, and leadership development, who showed Obama their green building techniques.
The Youth Build USA program is undergoing an increasing emphasis on green building techniques. More than 120 Youth Build staff have received training in “green construction”. The program targets that, by no later than 2013, at least 75 percent of Youth Build homes will be “green homes.”
The Huffington Post reports, “First Lady Michelle Obama will join the effort, bringing visibility to the expanding program and, we hope, to its shift toward a ‘greener’ approach in line with the Green Jobs focus. And, Members of Congress (such as Senator John Kerry and Representative John Lewis) will also join the effort.”
July 27th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
My name is Alice Caruthers and I am the Executive Director of the Alemany Resident Manage Corporation (RMC)/Farm program in San Francisco, CA. Our farm is located adjacent to the Alemany Federal Housing Development.
The farm teaches at-risk youth sustainable farming and the food is distributed to Alemany residents and other San Franciscans who do not have the funds to purchase fresh produce. The RMC program trains youth in leadership development, conflict resolution, peer pressure, pregnancy prevention and a host of other issues that effect our young people and are contributing factors for high unemployment,high drop out rates/truancy, high pregnancies, incarcerations and so on.
We are asking for your help in providing funding to support our efforts. For more information about our program, please check out our web page at alemanyfarms.com. After viewing the our web page, please contact me at alicecaruthers60@yahoo.com or (415) 261-2705.
I believe that our work in Alemany is directly in line with your support of green projects and look forward to hearing from you soon.
May God Bless you and your family,
Alice Caruthers, ED