School News: The Episcopal School of Dallas (TX) Supports the OneLove Foundation

Summer 2018

When you want to bring more attention to a movement, it’s not a bad idea to include actual movement. That’s what a group of upper school students at The Episcopal School of Dallas (ESD) did to shine a brighter light on domestic violence awareness, organizing the “Yards for Yeardley” Walk to End Relationship Abuse, which took place in December. 
   
The walk supports the OneLove Foundation, which was founded by Sharon Love, mother of the University of Virginia lacrosse player Yeardley Love, who was killed by her ex-boyfriend while at UVA.


   Photo by Ashley Hudson

Every spring semester for the past three years, ESD juniors attend the OneLove Foundation’s Escalation workshop where students talk about recognizing healthy and unhealthy relationship behaviors. This year, juniors Jay Browne and Story Langston, student ambassadors for the OneLove Foundation, decided to start the discussion sooner and increase awareness by organizing a walk.
   
“Our club lacrosse coach was a close friend of Yeardley’s and is very passionate about this foundation, so we wanted to help her make it more prominent in the North Texas area,” Browne says. “Since it’s our first year doing this event, we made our goal 100,000 yards because we wanted an attainable number we could reach and hopefully exceed it.”
                            
And exceed it they did. More than 250 participants walked a total of 700,000 yards—or nearly 400 miles—and raised $2,000 for the OneLove Foundation.

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