Blog 14: Independent Component 1

• Literal
• I, Angel Campos, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work
• Main source used: http://www.dosomething.org/teensforjeans
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvyNhJ5LSQ5AdFNaeVpTa3NBNl9RT3FMV0VQNXNGZGc#gid=0
• For my independent component, the Teens for Jeans campaign, I first started by communicating with my TFJ team- Lauren D., Clara A., Victoria Y., and Alissa M. I held a meeting with the team on Jan. 10 to discuss the basic goal of the campaign and what materials we would need. I then assigned Lauren to be in charge of the senior donations, Clara to be in charge of the juniors, Victoria to be in charge of the sophomores, and Alissa to be in charge of the freshmen. I then asked them to each bring a box to collect their donations in and place them in the history class of the the grade level they were in charge of. Once that was established we all signed up on the website listed above and we then received a banner to hang in the school (I had to turn it over to ASB for approval, which Jordan says it has received this past Tuesday, but has unfortunately been misplaced. Jordan has a good idea of where it is though). Next I met with ASB to pitch them the idea of the campaign, which got approved as well. I then proceeded to make flyers for the campaign to better explain the idea of the campaign since there seemed to be some confusion with the name. (Sorry!) Victoria also made vibrant posters.Today I also folded and counted the jeans to see where we are, and so far we have 15, but that's only with the Juniors and Seniors combined, I am awaiting the results of the Freshmen and Sophomores tomorrow.
• Interpretive






• Since my topic is homeless youth I decided to run this campaign at school, because while the jeans collected may be donated to homeless men and women as well, their focus is donating them to homeless youth-since they are collecting the jeans from other youth. I am still in charge of the committee (since it ends Feb. 8), which involves meetings with my team, organizing/folding/collecting jeans, meeting with ASB, talking to the history teachers, and creating flyers. The entire preparation and execution of the campaign extends over a month which represents my 30 hours.  
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• Applied
• It made me realize that homeless youth need resources more than money, which is something they greatly lack due to their condition of not being in "mainstream living conditions". For example, once I signed up for the campaign I started researching as to why the campaign called for jeans only and learned it was because jeans were the most requested item from the homeless because they need something durable. Also, the homeless only have about 1-2 pairs of jeans a year, which made me realize how much of an effort will need to be made in order to transition homeless youth into mainstream living conditions- which can range anywhere from having enough food to eat to just having enough jeans to last them through a week.