GW Student Plans to Go the Extra Mile for Somalian Children
Sixth grader Liam Davis-Wallace will swim, bike and run as many laps as he can with proceeds going to UNICEF for Somalian children and families in need.
George Washington Middle School student Liam Davis-Wallace was thinking about bones. Not just any kind of bones, but human bones. He was thinking of human bones that might be lying around on the ground. It was unnerving. It was part of the curriculum at school to help students better understand international affairs. The Alexandria City Public Schools study unit is related to an event planned for June on the National Mall—One Million Bones, a collaborative art installation recognizing victims and survivors who have been killed or displaced by genocides in Somalia, Burma, Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Artists, activists and students are making “bones” to showcase the issue. “In my school I was told about Somalian suffering…
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Beth
1:03 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Liam, we need more overachievers like you in our school system! Good luck with your amazing fundraising goal to help the families of Somalia! You are an amazing young man. more ›