Wednesday 5/27/09

Hey all! So this Wednesday we met up at AACA, and set out for another adventurous afternoon in Chinatown. We didn't really pass out that many forms, since we went through most of the stores last week. This week it was more of collecting the forms, and wondering if the buisnesses who did not reply were still interested in the plants. There were still some stores who said that their boss/managers were not there, and they did not give us a response. We also decided on the time for meeting up, and we somewhat planned out things, like the things that we are going to buy this Saturday. This was an interesting day, walking back to Chinatown, and getting the buisnesses response, because some people just totally forgot, or they just put the form aside.

AACA youth's adventure in Chinatown on May 20th 2009

On May 2oth most of the AACA's youth (Amy, Betty, Bradford, Christine, Mabel, Vivian) met up at AACA. We printed out the applications for the local Chinatown businesses to sign up to get the free plants. Then we headed out into Chinatown. We went into the old businesses whom we already gave the application to and we went to the new businesses that we haven't contacted. In the beginning it was hard because we didn't realize that using English wasn't the best way. Afterwards we decided to use Chinese to communicate. That was an effective method because we got some businesses to sign up and some said maybe. We have made a list of all the businesses that we contacted and wrote down what their responses were. Although there were some businesses that told us "No" we didn't give up. We continued to ask and we will go back to the businesses in a few days to ask if they have filled out their applications yet. We all believe that in the end we will get enough businesses to take care of the plants. Keep up the good work guys!

AACA Youth Council At the end of the Day

THINGS THAT WE COMPLETED TODAY:

• Made the fliers
  
• Made a form for the businesses to Sign if they are interested in receiving the Plants
• Went around businesses to tell them about the youth council/Go Lucky Green Project, we did that by giving them a flier attached with it was a form to sign up for it.
  

We taped fliers of the Go Lucky Green Project around Chinatown.I felt that today we got alot of things done and we somewhat changed the ideas that we first thought up. In the begining we thought of placing the flowers in front of businesses, but as we got asround we found out that there were no room because the places there are really crwoded and there was not enough room for it.
Then when we were done with the flyer and form we went around Chinatown to hand out the flyers to Businesses, at the first some owners/managers were hesitant, or workers said the owner/manger was not here. We got one bakery to fill out the form and give it right back to us, and some said they would mail/bring it back to AACA.
Then the goup headed to Home Depot to figure out what plants there are and what the prices of it are. Now we actually have an idea of things to get on May 30.

May 9 Meeting

Our first blog!

The AACA youth council is a council situated in Chinatown with youth who come from various places in the Greater Boston area. Currently, the youth is starting a project called the Go Lucky Green Project, in which we sell bamboos and use the profit we get to buy plants/flowers/trees to plant in Chinatown to make it more "green" (or environmentally friendly). After receiving a $1000 grant from United Way to start our project, we have been very successful. We made a $300 from selling the bamboos at various locations.

Today, we had a meeting where we researched the costs of plants for our Go Lucky Green Project. We were finally able to walk around Chinatown and take pictures of possible places where we could plant the flowers. We're still trying to create a flyer which we would distribute to different owners in Chinatown. Today was a fairly productive meeting.