Paperfolding
Workshops
Contact:
Emily Nghiem
emailus@ev1.net
P.O. Box 981101
Houston, TX 77098
(713) 867-5998
NOTE: Since this picture was taken at APV, the Scyrus family has been relocated to the public housing complex at Irvington, along with Mary Pruitt and family and Lenwood Johnson, President of the Resident Council. Lenwood is still looking for legal help to stop the mistreatment of human remains at APV and to restore the Residents' access to the site in order to pursue their Community Campus plan (to be posted soon). Wessie Scyrus has also served on the Board of the Fourth Ward Health and Educational Center for Youth, Inc. and has worked with the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
Emily Nghiem volunteers with the Fourth Ward Health and Educational Center for Youth, Inc. Her goal is to organize community support to help raise funds for the $1.4 billion Youth Master Plan for Fourth Ward, which includes school campus facilities and a student center. She would like students to have a 24-hour access to a computer lab with music and video recording equipment, so that young artists may produce and market their own work in order to fund their own education and government representation through a youth council.
James Partsch-Galvan is a regular speaker at Houston City Council sessions. He would like to be part of a volunteer team that fixes up the remaining units left at Allen Parkway Village for use as temporary housing for displaced residents. That way, these families may return to the Freedmen's Town community while negotiations are being made to save the rest of this historic African-American neighborhood. Anyone interested in helping James to pursue this idea may e-mail him at partschgalvan@hotmail.com or visit his webpage under Personal Pages.