We’re in These Streets: Building a Perfect City
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On Martin Luther King Day, we attended a workshop, “Building a Perfect City,” sponsored by nonprofit organizations 4-C Coalition and Seattle Cares Mentoring Movement at Seattle’s Garfield High School.
“Building a Better City” was a project of 4-C Coalition and Seattle Cares that in 2021 asked Denny and Meany Middle Schools students to probe what it would take to make Seattle a better city in areas such as public safety and innovative schools.
Four of the students who participated in the project—Zakaria Mukhtar, August Diggs, Kenny Ouedraogo, and Dagim Asfaw—were sixth graders at the time. They are now 11th graders. All are mentees at 4-C Coalition, and they led the Martin Luther King Day workshop.
Here is what they had to say.
Seattle Cares director Don Cameron spoke about the project, “Build a Perfect City,” and moderator Michael Akanni-Nelson asked the panelists to define public safety.
The panelists were asked whether they believe the city has gotten better since they began the Building a Better City project in 2021, and they were asked what would an innovative school look like.
4-C Coalition is a member of United Way of King County’s Racial Equity Coalition, a group of 14 organizations that create communities of belonging for youth of color, offering after-school programs that celebrate their cultural identities. To learn more about the Racial Equity Coalition, click here.
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