The task was simple, but it would require thought.
“Take a minute to think about your own future. If you could invent your own tomorrow, what would it look like?” Kimberly Easton asked the 300 guests who attended the Great Girls and Wonderful Women luncheon at Foundation for Youth Tuesday.
Easton, multicultural director at Bartholomew Consolidated School Corp. and co-emcee of the luncheon, instructed each girl and woman to write their responses on a yellow sticky note and post it to the glass window just inside the entrance of the FFY gym.
The notes read of hopes, promises, dreams and goals.
“Tomorrow, I will be brave.”
“Ensure everyone has the same opportunities regardless of income limitations.”
“I dream of a society without a gender pay gap!”
“I will cause a ripple so big it makes huge change.”
The annual Great Girls Wonderful Women Luncheon provides an opportunity for women in the Columbus community to support Foundation for Youth girls and their endeavors. At the event, FFY participants are seated with female leaders from around the community to have lunch and talk about goals, dreams and future plans.
In its fifth year, the luncheon welcomed more than 300 people Tuesday to the annual event at FFY, 405 Hope Ave. All funds raised from the event support Foundation for Youth’s general scholarship fund. The fund enables the organization to serve children of the community who need assistance the most.
For more on this story, including more photos, see Wednesday’s Republic.
