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Washington, DC 2016 Challenges:

I challenge you to educate your community about the importance of literacy and its vital role in creating an informed society. Find inventive ways to engage all member of your community in reading or writing for please every day.

Mark Hecker

I challenge you to design a model that increases access to affordable, healthy food for communities that need it most, while stimulating awareness about the importance of healthy food and nutrition.

Patty Stonesifer

By bringing together unlikely allies, I challenge you to unleash peace to counter the culture of violence present in your community.

Eric Dawson

I challenge you to reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

Aisha Alexander

Washington, DC 2016 Solutions:

Mark Hecker

I challenge you to design a model that increases access to affordable, healthy food for communities that need it most, while stimulating awareness about the importance of healthy food and nutrition.

Patty Stonesifer

The Healthy Knights

We will develop a system to provide affordable healthy food and educate our community through a mentorship program.

Stamp Out Hunger DC

Stamp Out Hunger DC makes healthy and affordable food available to low income families in Wards 5, 7, and 8 through the establishment of model community gardens to teach residents how to produce fresh and healthy foods.

By bringing together unlikely allies, I challenge you to unleash peace to counter the culture of violence present in your community.

Eric Dawson

Tiger Alliance

Tiger Alliance will foster positive relationships between unlikely allies by coming together as one community and breaking down the negative stereotypes that divide us through our week of unity.

PEACE Agents of Change

PEACE Agents of Change will create a summit named Spreading Our Voice Against Violence by Knowing Our Rights. We will address root causes of violence such as mental illness, anger, misguided information, fear, police brutality, and gentrification in our community.

I challenge you to reimagine urban spaces so that kids living in low-income communities have equal opportunities to receive the play-filled childhood they deserve.

Aisha Alexander

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