Tag: Photos
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‘Give Teens More Places to Go’: Photos
By Jena Olson As part of the Speak City Heights collaborative, City Heights youth continue to explore their environment through The AjA Project’s PhotoCity classes at local schools. PhotoCity uses photography programming to help youth understand how issues in their community impact them and advocate for change. At Crawford High School, students are focusing their…
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‘We Need More Tutors’: Photo Essay
By Jena Olson In collaboration with Speak City Heights, The AjA Project asked students at Crawford High School to use their cameras to explore what most affects their health at school. Ismahan, 18, chose to draw attention to the importance of after-school tutors, particularly for students learning English as a second language. “The afterschool tutor…
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Class Sizes: ‘I Care Because Students Need to Learn’
By Jena Olson As part of The AjA Project PhotoCity program, students at Crawford High School spent time using cameras to examine factors at their school that affect their overall health. This week we’re showcasing a photo essay by student Hawa, 18. She used her photo essay as an opportunity to highlight the issue of…
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‘Still Room for Improvement on School Lunches’: Photo Essay
By Jena Olson Last year, school districts throughout the country and right here in San Diego revamped their school lunch menus to comply with updated nutrition standards. The new USDA guidelines call for less salt and fat and more fruit and vegetables. And students are now required to pick out a nutritionally complete meal as…
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Photo Essay: ‘Graffiti is a Distraction in School’
By Jena Olson Speak City Heights partner The AjA Project is helping students at Crawford High School add their voices to the conversation about community health in City Heights. Using photography and narrative, they’re examining health issues — physical, mental and social — at their school and speaking to the issues that most directly affect…