On January 21st, 2013, Hadiya Pendleton, a high school student from the south side of Chicago, marched in President Obama’s 2nd inaugural parade in Washington, D.C. One week later, she was shot and killed on a playground near her school. Soon after this tragedy, Hadiya’s childhood friends decided to commemorate her life by wearing orange, the color hunters wear in the woods to protect themselves and others.
This year, on June 2, what would have been Hadiya’s 20th birthday, hundreds of thousands of Americans will come together to #WearOrange and show their support for a future free from gun violence.
For the first time, Moms Demand Action is running a Wear Orange fundraising campaign to support our work: the BeSMART curriculum that educates parents about safe gun storage and prevents child gun deaths; the Everytown Survivors Network that brings together Americans who have been personally affected by gun violence and equips them to share their stories and take action to spare other families their pain; and our ongoing efforts to train more gun sense activists.
Please contribute to support gun sense policies and invest in the volunteers who will lead us to a future free from gun violence!