Makaila Reed and her sisters know how dangerous their streets once were and how tempting it has been for other young people to join gangs and get caught up in a life of violence and crime. That’s why the girls and their mother never take it for granted that today they...
Sometimes it’s difficult to measure the success of what we do at Community Renewal. After an incident in Allendale, Emmitt Welch, Community Coordinator Allendale Youth, was able to see how effective our program is to those who are impacted the most by it. Three weeks...
A Community On The Way Back The Barksdale Annex Neighborhood Vietnam veteran John Pearce almost felt like he had moved from one war zone to another when he moved into the Barksdale Annex neighborhood in Bossier City.“It was easy to see this could have been classified...
A Life Changed Forever Look at me now! “If I had to choose a topic tonight, it would be Jarmika ‘Look at me now.’ I am the fourth child of eight children, living with my mother and grandmother in a two-bedroom house. I never met my biological father; I never...
To say that the first South Shreveport Cares event was a success would be an understatement. The event raised $31,000 for the Cedar Grove Friendship Houses. In partnership with Community Renewal International, South Shreveport Cares united neighborhoods, churches and...
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