THE ARCHER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Lemon:AID Warriors Participate in Global School Girl March

Students from The Archer School for Girls, organized by Archer 9th grader  and founder of Lemon:AID Warriors Lulu Cerone, joined the Global School Girl March to demand the return of 273 girls who were kidnapped and reported missing in Nigeria on April 14. Wearing red, carrying signs and chanting “Two seventy-three, Just like me!”  and “Bring Back Our Girls!,” Archer students were part of a worldwide demonstration which took place on Thursday, May 22  at 4:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time. Girls marched from the Federal Building up Wilshire Boulevard, one of the most heavily-trafficked corridors in the Southland, especially at evening rush-hour.

Lemon:AID Warriors is a non-profit organization Cerone founded at the age of ten in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake. From her original lemonade-stand fundraiser, Cerone and her young warriors continue to take action on behalf of human rights, and have generated close to $80,000 for global and local causes. In response to the crisis in Nigeria, Cerone and her peers Ava Filan from The Wesley School and Stella Gage from Archer launched an online photo campaign, based on the question “What do 200+ girls look like?” Hundreds of photos of girls holding the #bringbackourgirls sign arrived in a matter of a few hours. Cerone and her team then used the photos to create a digital montage, putting faces to the staggering count and forming the foundation for the “200+ Girls” facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/TwoHundredGirls?fref=ts

 "We gave the missing girls faces. Now our goal is to give them voices and fight for every girl's right to an education,” said Cerone.

She has also created a donation page for students to accept donations instead of graduation presents this year. The money collected will go to “Room to Read” projects that send a girl in a developing country to school.