Frederick A. Douglass Senior High Students continue leading a neighborhood clean-up drive the last Saturday of every month from 9:30 to 11:30. The students clean around the school and along the St. Claude Ave. neutral ground from Poland to Franklin Ave.

PJâs Frenchmen sponsors the activity along with the Fred Hampton Youth Action Committee. Our Voice encourages all schools to partner with community groups on similar monthly projects. Plan academic projects (essays, articles, art work, studies of types of trash people leave, oral histories of a block) related to this neighborhood work.

Douglass SAC students have developed a pledge that they distribute to all schoolmates who join them in this urban environmentalism project. People who take the pledge wear a green ribbon and agree to these three steps:

1. Not to drop any trash

2. To pick up at least two pieces of trash that someone else has dropped each day.

3. To participate in a neighborhood clean-up activity once a month.

Damien Theodore, a 10th grade SAC student at Frederick Douglass High School, ties up another bag of trash.

Damien Theodore and Bruce "Philosophy" Coleman spend a cold Saturday morning on the SAC Urban Environmentalism project.