Hi – so this just happened. I was awarded the 2019 PINK Award during this year’s Reunion Weekend All School Meeting. I plans to use my award to create an app to assist with advocacy. Without going too much into detail, my project will be the creation of an app. I realized that there aren’t…
DetailsSource: https://www.madeira.org/news/details/2019-pink-award-winner-to-create-advocacy-app/#.XN7XTo4zbIV Hi – so this just happened. I was awarded the 2019 PINK Award during this year’s Reunion Weekend All School Meeting at my school. My plan is to use the grant to create what I call ‘Advoc8’ the app made for activists. Without going too much into detail, my project will be the creation of…
DetailsCenturies ago, our forefathers fought and died for the right to vote. Years later, they were succeeded by men of color who fought for this same fight. Decades ago, women joined the great struggle for suffrage. All of them were willing to make the greatest sacrifice to secure liberty and freedom that they would pass…
DetailsSource: http://www.alexandriagazette.com/news/2018/jul/13/opinion-letter-editor-teenagers-organize-rally-reu/?templates=mobile In light of the humanitarian crisis on the border, high school students were not able to sit back and watch people struggle and suffer. Virginia teenagers, Tarina Ahuja, Perrin McHugh, and Bee Hyland, organized a rally titled “Rally to Reunite” that took place in front of the ICE building in Fairfax. The event…
DetailsSource: http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/local-students-rally-to-reunite-families-separated-at-border/article_5a79175c-86ca-11e8-9b15-0b9720451ceb.html Tarina Ahuja is fed up with feeling helpless. The Madeira School rising 11th grader saw videos of crying immigrant parents and children who had been separated at the U.S.’s southern border on the news one day and decided she had to do something. After a flurry of brainstorming and texting, Ahuja and her…
DetailsSource: https://patch.com/virginia/vienna/protest-outside-fairfax-ice-office-organized-students The group of teens protested the zero-tolerance immigration policy and family separations. FAIRFAX, VA—A group of teens organized a rally outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Fairfax Sunday. Organized by 16-year-old Tarina Ahuja of Ashburn and 17-year-olds Perrin McHugh of McLean and Bee Hyland of Leesburg, the “Rally to Reunite” centered…
DetailsSource: https://www.change.org/p/the-madeira-school-administration-hold-a-self-defense-class-during-student-life Tarina Ahuja started this petition to The Madeira School Administration At the Madeira school we are girls who will change the world. In order to become world changers we must feel secure both internally and externally. Our campus provides a safe space but most students do however lack the tools needed for self protection. In…
DetailsMarch 3rd, 1913: Women’s March on Washington for the right to vote. Attendance: 5,000 January 21st 2017: Women’s March on Washington with a mission to spread the word that “Women’s rights ARE Human Rights” Attendance: 2.6 million worldwide My alarm went off at 5:00 AM in the morning. Usually I would complain and hit snooze…
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