SPARK the Truth

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After attending Wheelock’s Youth Symposium “Bridges to Hope and Understanding: Exploring Truth and Reconciliation” with Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, students from Boston Public Schools were inspired to form a community action assembly composed of young people from their own communities. Building upon a speech delivered at the symposium by Pharlone Toussaint, the students named their budding organization “SPARK the Truth.”  The BPS students were invited back to the Wheelock campus for a Youth Leadership Summit in November where they developed the mission statement for SPARK the Truth and defined their goals.

SPARK the Truth’s Mission Statement

Who we are:
We are a group of students working to encourage and support positive community action amongst students in Boston Public Schools.

What we believe:

We believe that giving youth every conceivable opportunity to facilitate, engage and enact their own community initiatives is an essential aspect of fostering the changes needed in their individual and collective communities.