April 20, 2009

DETROIT -- YouthVille Detroit is leading Michigan's efforts in the Global Youth Services Day Project on Friday through Sunday, in which millions of young people throughout the world will participate in and lead service projects.

Approximately 1,100 youth will take part in projects organized by the YouthVille Detroit GYSD Committee or through activities planned through the mini-grant program. The three-day event begins with an opening ceremony and rally on Friday at YouthVille Detroit.

The YouthVille Detroit activities and projects, which begin Saturday, include:

• East side: tree planting with Greening of Detroit
• East English Village: raking leaves, neighborhood clean-up and painting over graffiti
• Brightmoor: clean-up and demolition with Motor City Blight Busters
• Southwest and Belle Isle: neighborhood clean-up with City Year
• Southwest: face painting at Dia Del Nino event
• Detroit Enterprise: read-a-thon
• Old Redford: planting flowers, vegetables and cleaning gardens at Redford Presbytery Village
• North End: neighborhood clean-up, planting a garden and painting a mural.

Six organizations have received mini-grants to plan their own projects. Those groups include Detroit Enterprise Academy (read-a-thon), St. Johns Evangelistic Temple of Truth & Wisdom (mural painting), Metro Youth Collaborative (city park clean-up), MYC Student Leadership Team (painting over graffiti with hands), Aisha Shule WEB Dubois Academy (Joe Lewis Park clean-up), and George Washington Carver Academy (Highland Park clean-up initiative). Additionally, there will be a Robert S. Shumake Scholarship Relay event at Renaissance High School and an HIV/AIDS prevention program at Mumford High School.

For more information visit www.gysdyouthville.org or call 313.309.1423.

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