ANACOSTIA PROJECT

PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Anacostia Project: Protecting the Oceans by Respecting the Anacostia River

Friendship Public Charter School (FPCS), the largest charter school system in the District of Columbia, educates 4,000 students (grades pre-K to 12), on six school campuses. Fully accredited by the Middle States Association of Schools and Colleges, FPCS was incorporated in 1999.

This project, conducted by students at FPCS, in partnership with Guerilla Educators and the Central Caribbean Marine Institute on Little Cayman, will follow a drop of water from the Anacostia River to the coral reef system in the Bloody Bay Marine Park of Little Cayman, demonstrating to inner city students how we all live downstream, how the water quality of the Anacostia River, which runs through their neighborhoods, affects the Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay, Atlantic Ocean, and coral reefs, and how water quality initiatives in their neighborhoods can have a positive effect on global ecosystems.