17 April 2010
We Have to Offer More than the Streets
Posted by nico under: Life as we know it .
Everyday I hear more stories about how the US is policing the world with our ideals and policies while possessing an apathetic attitude towards our own. If we can’t even guarantee that our children can attend school without worries of being shot, what right do we have to tell other countries how they can or cannot treat their citizens?
It was another violent week in Chicago. Yes, some of them were allegedly gang related…does that mean we stop caring? I think instead of categorizing the violence as gang related and letting it go, we need to offer these children options in order to not only give them hope and choices for the future but also to keep them away from the gangs. When we as a society abandon them and their neighborhoods, they have nothing except the gangs. The streets will always be there for them. We have proven that we will not. We need to take it back and show these kids that we believe in them and we will not give up on them…no matter what comes down the path.
How we can help:
1. Volunteer Match
2. Child Advocates
3. On Your Feet Project
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