Shout out to Jessica Walker for showing me this...
Heal the Hood is a dope organization operating out of Cape Town that uses Hip-Hop and B-Boy culture as a tool to engage kids and give them something healthy and productive to do with their free time. Even here with GRS I've found that one of the things that often hinders these kids from making healthy life choices is the fact that they have so much free time. And anywhere in the world, the US included, the formula is pretty consistent...kids + free time + not many options when it comes to how to spend that free time = bad decisions.
So organizations like this one are absolutely necessary in the holistic approach to changing the trajectory of these kid's lives. Here out their website here.
And here's a video giving a rough breakdown of what they do:
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