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Collegiate Curls is an organization started on the College of Charleston's Campus to enhance the diversity and inclusion intiatives . At the college, the race relations are not as they should be and many students feel as though they do not belong. Out of 10,000 students only 900 are students of color and the classroom representation is even smaller. The mission of this organization is to uplift, empower, and support multicultural students as they embrace their natural beauty through healthy hair and skin care practices.
We are so blessed to now be the largest and fastest growing organization on our campus. With over 100 members we have increased the diversity on our campus, an helped recruit even more minority students to attend the college.
Our main mission is to empower people of color to see the beauty, strength, and vigor in which they contain. In the fall the organization will be starting a pen pal program with a school within The Peace Corps of South Africa .The letters not only serve as a source of encouragement, but also help the students practice their English writing skills while simultaneously connecting with you wonderful people.
There in South Africa the topic of race and how the black South Africans are viewed is usually avoided at all costs. Apartheid is still very real in this country (legally it ended in 1993 but the effects are still widely seen). Through the old Bantu education system the black South Africans were taught relentlessly that they are not as good, smart, or important as the white people in this country.
Phillip Wright one of the teachers at the schools goal as a peace corps volunteer is "to empower my students and to show them that they can achieve their goalsand dreams, and that there are people out there to help you wanting nothing but your success in return. I try and especially focus on my girls because they have even less power in the rural Zulu culture. "
Along with notes of encouragement we aim to send art and school supplies, hygiene and self care products, and books with predominately black characters to the school to help empower the girls that they are enough within themselves.
Your donation will not only help with the cost of shipping overseas, but also with providing enough material to help the students in multiple fields of study, and personal life. Any help would be of great appreciation to this program! If unable to make a fiscal donation we would appreciate letters of love and encouragement, any lightly used books, hair barrettes and bows, and beaded jewlery. All physical donations can be mailed to Courtney Hicks 1312 CofC Complex, Charleston SC, 29424.
We are so blessed to now be the largest and fastest growing organization on our campus. With over 100 members we have increased the diversity on our campus, an helped recruit even more minority students to attend the college.
Our main mission is to empower people of color to see the beauty, strength, and vigor in which they contain. In the fall the organization will be starting a pen pal program with a school within The Peace Corps of South Africa .The letters not only serve as a source of encouragement, but also help the students practice their English writing skills while simultaneously connecting with you wonderful people.
There in South Africa the topic of race and how the black South Africans are viewed is usually avoided at all costs. Apartheid is still very real in this country (legally it ended in 1993 but the effects are still widely seen). Through the old Bantu education system the black South Africans were taught relentlessly that they are not as good, smart, or important as the white people in this country.
Phillip Wright one of the teachers at the schools goal as a peace corps volunteer is "to empower my students and to show them that they can achieve their goalsand dreams, and that there are people out there to help you wanting nothing but your success in return. I try and especially focus on my girls because they have even less power in the rural Zulu culture. "
Along with notes of encouragement we aim to send art and school supplies, hygiene and self care products, and books with predominately black characters to the school to help empower the girls that they are enough within themselves.
Your donation will not only help with the cost of shipping overseas, but also with providing enough material to help the students in multiple fields of study, and personal life. Any help would be of great appreciation to this program! If unable to make a fiscal donation we would appreciate letters of love and encouragement, any lightly used books, hair barrettes and bows, and beaded jewlery. All physical donations can be mailed to Courtney Hicks 1312 CofC Complex, Charleston SC, 29424.
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Courtney Hicks
Organizer
Charleston, SC