Stop the Violence in Wicomico County (STV) kicked off its program for Salisbury youth Thursday evening. Volunteers from all over Salisbury and Wicomico County showed their commitment to Salisbury’s young people by giving their time, talent, and treasure to make this program a success.
Nancy Rendine, President of STV, explained the premise behind STV and its programs:
This organization is volunteer based. As we raise funds, our goal is to have a full time director, but 99% of the work with these kids is done through volunteers. We’ve asked people to take what they’re passionate about and translate that passion to something that relates to the young people here.
We have people who are teaching the kids basketball, we have someone starting to teach soccer. We have folks who are working with the kids in photography, crafts, music how to fix hair, you name it. Rather than us trying to tell a volunteer what to do, we encourage them to take their skills, their passions, and use those to help our youth.
We have a great board that’s working hard to design programs plus raise money. Our goal is to purchase this building (Calloway Street gym) and have a safe place for the youth to come to and be active.
Stop the Violence runs programs Monday – Thursday from 6PM – 8PM at the Calloway Gym.
5 comments:
you can take these kids out of the hood for a few hours a day and show them a better life but untill you take the hood out of the kids they still go home to it. Glad it has at least started somewhere.But untill we change an entire generation the result will stay the same.
Hey Anonymous 2:22 PM, How are you involved in making things better ? Nancy and the rest of the people involved are a true gift to these young kids, and saving some is better than saving none. You are either part of the problem or you can be part of the solution. Thank You Nancy Rendine, Chief Duncan, Lt Leatherbury, Mark Thompson, Matt Macerallio, Sandy Fitzgerald Angelo, and all of the others that came out to be a positive influence.
An Area Resident :)
222 You are ignorant. Turning kids on to a different environment triggers a whole new world of opportunity to realize that things can be different. Look at Dr. Ben Carlson. Go back to your little rock and crawl under it.
Hey 2:43
The problem is the culture. Period.
Until we teach people to have no more children than they can support, there will always be young people who need an incredible expenditure of resources to succeed. As those numbers increase, and the number of people working declines, our society continues to decline.
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