ASAN (KXAN) – After school on Tuesday at the MEADOWBROK Children’s and Girls Club facility – a low -income housing community in South Austin – your sisters, Julisa and Jarita Toubar Mendes, 13 and 12 years old, acted as my usual sister.
“I copied me,” Jaritza said, when the older sister Julia said that her favorite food is Alfredo chicken.
This conversation moved to the reformulation of the argument for that morning about the amount of ice that one sister was supposed to put in the other bottle of water.
“Well, we must be professionals here,” Julisa said ultimately, putting an end to the joke so that the interview can continue.
Certainly, they participated in a standard sister’s conflict, but when it comes to a sense of safety in their society, they do not have the same luxury that many families may consider forced.
“We are trying to prevent violence from occurring until people feel safe and comfortable to go out,” Julia said.
Sisters are part of a group of students who collected a presentation entitled “Armed Violence: Impact on Meadbrook” and presented it to representatives of the Corporalate Boys and Girls in Washington, DC, this year. They also got an opportunity to share their work with Congress member Greg Kassar.
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Youth Club of Sons and Local Girls with a member of Congress Greg Kassar in the capital (as a courtesy: Boys & Girls of Austin Club region) -
Austin Boys and Girls Youth in the capital (as a courtesy: the boys and girls area of Austin) Austin region) -
A group of young students collected a project on armed violence. (Compliment: Austin District Boys and Girls Club)
In this project, a 12 -year -old resident was quoted, saying, “I don’t feel safe because I am always abroad, and this risk shoots more easily.”
“No child is a witness to any kind of criminal activity,” said Silvia Calderon, Executive Director of Operations at the Housing Authority of Austin. “Unfortunately, we have all seen a rise in criminal activity in parts of Austin. Being able to express the things they saw, the activity they saw, and put it in a thoughtful manner … I am in vaginal.”
The children’s project was opened with armed violence statistics. Then they identified their safety concerns and what they did to address those, which included meetings with HACA, the council member in the province 3 Jose Velases and ATX PEACE representatives, and a group of basic community intervention in the city (CVI).
Although we did not go to weeks about Midoprk’s violence during our interview with Julisa and Jarita, Julisa summarized how this initiative formed it.
She said: “You taught me how to be a little and like young children, I can tell them not to argue as much as I am polite with their words.” “I want to be polite for everyone so that I can put them in a good mood and make their day and can be cute with others.”