‘Art installation’ raises awareness at Peters Township High School
By Harry Funk2 min read
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
Harry Funk / Staff
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
Harry Funk / Staff
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
Harry Funk / Staff
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
Harry Funk / Staff
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
Harry Funk / Staff
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Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club conduct a “performance art installation” to help raise awareness of the plight of homeless children.
Harry Funk / Staff
Students in Peters Township High School’s Interact Club did their part for Homeless Children’s Awareness Week by, well, creating awareness.
As their classmates were riding buses out of the school parking lot, club members stood on an embankment in front of the stadium, holding sketches of children’s faces in front of their own.
“The idea is that you bring about awareness by giving a face to homeless children,” Judy Alexander, Interact Club adviser, explained.
For the past four years, Interact students have volunteered at the Hundred Acres Manor haunted attraction in South Park, proceeds of which in part benefit the Homeless Children’s Education Fund.
This year, Susy Robison, the fund’s director of outreach and volunteers, visited the school to address the club in advance of Homeless Children’s Awareness Week, Oct. 19-25. She told the club about a “performance art installation” being conducted at two local universities using the sketches of faces.
“They got college students at Duquesne and Pitt to hold the signs up in silence, to represent the homeless children, how they don’t have a voice,” Sabrina Liu, Interact Club co-president, explained.
The other co-president, Emily Fornof, spoke further about the project.
“A lot of children who are homeless don’t necessarily feel comfortable to stand up and speak about what they’re going through,” she said. “So it was a way for all of us to stand up for them, and give them a voice and help their cause.”
The Interact students also helped raise awareness by handing out Homeless Children’s Education Fund wristbands during lunch on Oct. 22, along with other activities.
“We made a mural on one of our walls with some of these posters hung up, with facts about homeless children in Washington County,” Isabel Chopra, one of the students who handles public relations for the club, said.
Homeless children are those who lack a fixed, regular and adequate nighttime residence, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development definition.
The Peters Township High School Interact Club, an organization providing students with community service opportunities, is sponsored by the McMurray Rotary Club.
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