Adopt a Spot

Adopt-A-Spot is a year around partnership between Tukwila Parks and Recreation and BCG. Monthly clean ups – The location for the cleanups will be the Green River Trail at Bicentennial Park and will take place on a monthly basis starting in April.

Geed Beero

Geedku wuxuu qurxiyaa muuqaalka, wuxuu siiyaa hadh iyo hooy xayawaanka iyo cayayaanka ku nool ama ku dul socda laamahiisa, iyo sidii oo aysan ku filnayn wuxuu nuugaa tan oo kaarboon laba ogsaydh ah noloshiisa oo dhan.

"Our advice to others interested in this work would be to personalize their mission with the impact they seek to create in the community."

Impact Fund

Ayanle Ismail, Executive Director of Bridging Cultural Gaps, a South King County Community Impact Fund first round grantee, will participate in the Cultivation and Cultural Belonging panel. Bridging Cultural Gaps works with Black and East African immigrant families and youth to do park clean-up days, build out a recycling initiative, and hold educational workshops on connecting with nature and the urban environment.

“Understanding our guiding principles and values as the root of what inextricably connects us with the environment is important. This is why our project is successful. Our advice to others interested in this work would be to personalize their mission with the impact they seek to create in the community,” Ismail said. “Events like the SKC Environmental Symposium are important because they create a relational approach that brings us together, rather than a transactional one. Such a process also creates room for learning and advancing the environmental movement.”

- The Facts Newspaper