-I'm gonna help some people make their neighborhood
a little more awesome. Let's go.
[ Imitating wind whooshing ]
[ Laughter ]
This is Bailey.
She goes to college in this neighborhood,
and she wants to help the kids who live here
play and share and be great people.
-Hello. -[ Chuckles ]
-She and her friends wanted to see the neighborhood
through the eyes of kids,
so we're helping them put together something special.
-And right here, we have the government housing projects,
which have some incredible people, but are very neglected.
-That's your sister?
-And so what we've realized is that we are so close to this.
We are literally a block away,
and it's been really fun
to be able to kind of try to bridge that gap
between college kids
and kids who are here in the neighborhood.
-It all started really simply with one family,
and that was about 10 kids,
with their extended family involved,
and then now we have anywhere from 10 to 70 kids
on an average Saturday.
-Green light!
-Red light!
-This wasn't a conscious effort to say,
"We're gonna save the world."
This was a, "let's be neighbors.
Let's be friends. Let's hang out."
-So, today, we have a really cool surprise for you guys.
So, we want to give you guys a camera,
and we want you guys to take pictures
of things that you guys think are beautiful,
things that are good,
people being good neighbors, maybe.
We're gonna have an art show, and we're gonna have a chance
for you guys to show all of your pictures
to all of the people in your neighborhood.
[ All cheering ]
-One more time.
-[ Speaking indistinctly ]
-Can you sit on my lap?
-You have to wait. When we're ready to...
-Okay, let's go to your house.
-Nice.
-One of them.
-Hey.
-They took pictures of all different places.
Some kids took pictures of flowers.
Some took pictures of their friends.
Some took pictures of their cousins,
sidewalks, anything.
Then we got all the kids' pictures
and took them, got them developed.
This is when it got really cool.
We got all the kids' pictures,
and we put together a really big art party.
Put their work on display for everybody to see it.
[ Indistinct conversations ]
-All the pictures that you see here
were taken by the kids,
and as you can see, some of your friends are on here,
your family, your houses, your cousins.
Did everybody see something they recognize on these pictures?
-Together: Yeah! -Yeah.
-[ Speaking indistinctly ]
-They were very proud of their art,
which was cool to see, and to see them, like,
take ownership of something that they had made
and something that they had created.
They were able to show beauty
and to show where they live and be proud of it.
-Getting to see the kids be proud of something
is a really great feeling.
That's not something
you get to see very often in this neighborhood.
-We gave Bailey the Medal of Awesome
and her very own neighborhoodie.
-Thank you.
[ Cheers and applause ]
Oh, their pictures were so beautiful.
To see people taking pictures of their families
and of their moms,
of the clover that we plant in the field
to help restore their playground --
just so much joy and --
Well, I'm gonna cry.
-Everybody, give miss Bailey a round of applause.
[ Cheers and applause ]
-To get to hear a circle full of children
that you love with all of your heart
tell you that they love you is really exciting
because I do -- I love them with all of my heart,
and -- and it's just a great feeling.
[ Chuckles ]
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