Plant HOPE in Anacostia

What does hope look like when firmly planted in a community filled with poverty and despair? Let's find out together when we hold the 2nd Annual Plant HOPE project on Saturday, April 26, 2008 in Washington, DC for Global Youth Service Day.

With support from Youth Service America and State Farm, Creative Cause and young professionals will work on creative projects capturing the theme of Plant Hope in Anacostia with students from Washington Middle School for Girls. To get involved with Plant Hope and Global Youth Service Day, email info@planthope.org.

Last April at McKinley Technology High School young professionals from the community volunteered to lend their creativity working with students from the YouthBUILD USA program on various projects including community gardening.

"Plant Hope is an opportunity that each of us have an opportunity to make a positive impact--small or large--in other people's lives and our own to be shining example of hope," said Tambra Stevenson, founder of Creative Cause.

Creative Cause is a Washington, DC-based social enterprise dedicated to using creativity to raise awareness and action on social causes and encourage the next generation of leaders to harness their creativity to address social issues in their community. We accomplish this by hosting educational, outreach and community service events throughout the year. We work to find creative innovative solutions to significant domestic and international problems and develop campaigns and foster a community and creative industry that is "socially responsible."

Global Youth Service Day is the largest annual celebration of young volunteers, where millions of young people in countries everywhere highlight and carry out thousands of community improvement projects.