Members of Youth Futures' Young Voices Council, with Advisor, ZaDonna Slay Members of the Chatham-Savannah Youth Futures Authority (YFA) Young Voices Youth Advisory Council are cleaning their closets -- and it's not because their mom asked them to do it.

NYC-based teen retailer Aeropostale and teen notfor profit DoSomething.org announced their second annual Teens for Jeans campaign in January.

The campaign aims to raise awareness on the growing number of homeless teens in the United States and Canada by empowering teens nationwide to collect jeans for homeless youth.

The local high school students collected about thirty pairs of jeans from January 26th through February 22nd.

This service project encouraged the teens to take action in their communities. Right now one in three homeless people in the United States are under the age of 18. "We want to be able to give back to the com- munity and help our peers who are less fortunate", says Brian Allen, a senior at Jenkins High School and second term member of Young Voices.

Aeropostale and DoSomething.org will make sure the jeans are donated to one of the local youth shelters that have been selected as partners.

As a result of this service project, the youth group has decided to take on a Semester of Service that will echo President Obama's Call to Service that will lead up to Global Youth Service Day on April 24-26, 2009. For more information about the Semester of Service Project or the Young Voices Youth Advisory Council, please contact ZaDonna Slay at (912) 651-6810.