Brooklyn Teens On Mission to Serve

Thirty Brooklyn teens chosen to participate in activist Malaak Compton-Rock's "Journey for Change" last summer in South Africa are ready to take on New York City with their mission to serve. "Journey for Change" is a youth empowerment program. The concept: to inspire "at-risk" youth and help them utilize their talents and abilities to change their peers & the world. They blogged about their experiences last August in South Africa and they continue to blog about their fundraisers and community service projects as "global ambassadors" in the program. Check out their most recent posted by CNN:


Journey for Change Notebook: June 2009

The trip to the United Nations was a very good experience. I didn't know I left the country until my tour guide told me. I bet Martin Luther King Jr. would have loved the United Nations. I say that because Dr. King loved peace. Peace is what the United Nations represents. The information that I received was just amazing and will be with me for the rest of my life. Thank you, Malaak, for the wonderful experience.

I also had fun when we went to UNICEF. UNICEF was an amazing place. UNICEF and Journey for Change do the same thing. However, UNICEF is a much bigger group. I hope that one day Journey for Change will become as big as UNICEF. UNICEF is always helping children all around the world. Journey for Change is always helping children all around the world also.

The trip to CNN was really fun because I love being around really highly technical gadgets. It was also cool because we got a chance to see a Journey for Change clip. The Journey for Change clip showed us in Brooklyn and in Africa. I just want to tell CNN that they did a really good job with the short clip. I also can't wait to see the full version of the clip.

The Delegates Dining Hall at the U.N. was very fun. Eating is one of my favorite times of the day. The food was very good. My favorite foods there were the cake and the bread. I also talked to a lot of people that were there. The people that were there were very curious about Journey for Change. I also got a lot of compliments about how sharp I looked.