This weekend, games and grilling took over the Wedgewood neighborhood in Columbus instead of police tape.'We believe there’s a need or a calling for a sense of
This weekend, games and grilling took over the Wedgewood neighborhood in Columbus instead of police tape.MY Project USA"That innocence is what we try to protect and preserve, and when you put them in spaces like this, you’re able to do that," he said. "Because in their minds, they don’t understand how complex the world is."
"I’ve grown up in a neighborhood that’s very similar, which is South Park," Ahmed said. "South Park and Wedgewood are two communities that have a lot of different struggles when it comes to the youth violence, the gang situations that happen, the drugs that are moved through those neighborhoods. So it’s a very dangerous and almost toxic place."
"The police only come when there’s, unfortunately, a shooting, there’s a crime, somebody has gotten murdered, and these children are constantly seeing them, and there’s a lot of trauma and fear," said Zerqa Abid, Founder, and President of MY Project USA.
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