Chi NOLA Connection
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We build relationships between schools to cooperate on social justice activities and break down isolation between schools.
Since 2006, students and teachers from neighborhood public schools in Chicago have been traveling to New Orleans to work on disaster relief and building justice. ChiNOLA Connection is an alliance of student activists from CPS schools and their adult allies from Brighton Park Elementary, Gage Park High School, Langston Hughes Elementary, Benito Juarez Community Academy, Percy Julian High School, Kelly High School, Social Justice High School, Telpochcalli School, and George Washington High School. Our students are active in immigration rights, opposition to school closings and defunding, stopping the school to prison pipeline, fair trade, animal rights, and disaster relief to name a few. Our students play leadership roles in other social justice groups such as citywide VOYCE and Mikva Challenge and school clubs such as Students for Social Justice at Kelly. We emphasize student responsibility and leadership. When students participate in the trip over several years, they take on more and more of the planning and really direct the work of the trip. This intense week of experiential learning through service, interaction with activist students and adults, and self-reliance has changed the lives of many young people. Exponential growth is a frequent outcome. Many trip alumni have chosen to live, work, and study in New Orleans after graduating from high school. This page was created to unite alumni and supporters from the past 11 years of the trip, and to dream what the next years will bring. Together we are building a more beautiful and just world!
02/25/2018
We've started fundraising for the 2018 ChiNOLA trip! Please share with your networks to help 45 Chicago Public Schools students and their allies travel to New Orleans to support housing reconstruction efforts and to build a more beautiful world.
Click here to support Chicago Youth Building Justice - ChiNOLA 2018 Service Trip Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath devastated the city of New Orleans in 2005. Yet more than a decade later, recovery in many areas has been hard to come by. Our group of students and teachers has been traveling from Chicago to New Orleans for the past 12 years to connect with local builders,...
02/20/2018
Do you like pizza? Do you like supporting youth social justice travel? Then come on out to Home Run Inn this Wednesday, 2/21. The restaurant will donate 20% of the bill from any dine in or take out order if you present our flyer on paper or your phone.
08/28/2017
Thanks to everyone who came out to support our fundraiser at Villapalooza! We had a blast and got to connect with alumni, teachers, and neighbors. If you missed us, check out our screen printed t-shirts for teachers at our shop's back to school sale. Use the code JUSTICIA at checkout for 20% off!
http://chijusticetees.bigcartel.com/
08/26/2017
ChiNOLA rocks!
08/26/2017
Today is the day! Come say hi to the ChiNOLA Connection at Villapalooza! We're at the corner of 26th and Drake. 👚 ❤️ 👶🏽
07/09/2017
Come join us today at the Pilsen Farmers Market! Tshirts for sale and baby smiles for free! 9-2 at 18th and Halsted. :-)
07/09/2017
Hey ChiNOLA fam, come join us today, Sunday July 9, at the Pilsen Farmer's Market! We'll be setting up shop with our original screenprinted tees. Stop by the corner of Halsted and 18th between 9 AM and 2 PM!
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