By Dennis S Murray Sr.
In 1954 an infant child was
born on the streets of New York City
This infant child was
afraid of everyone and never wanted to be touched especially by people that
were estranged to him. But there were two young girls living in the house who were the foster family's biological children and they loved him, despite the foster
mother's statements and mindset. This young baby endured a lot of grief and
sadness growing up with the family but the joy of those girls now sisters always
lifted his head while the foster father protected him as the girls looked on.
This taught this young child
to be courageous throughout the challenges he had to face in life, while watching
those around him outside of the home wanting to help him and others, he always
wanted to show those despite his situation how he had overcome negativity.
Throughout his life he saw people around him helping and working towards making others become hold or better regardless of circumstances so he saw this as a
vehicle for his own life to give back.
Many years later this young
child grew to be a man and started working in political service in the government
despite the racial discrimination he saw later while witnessing minority at-risk children being eliminated
from opportunities to be great. In March of 1980, he started working with young
children from the local high school of
Anacostia High , in Washington , DC
In November 2004 we formed Youth Development and Capacity Building, Inc
(YDACBINC) www.ydacbinc.org a non-profit 501 C 3 organization that has
produced decades of youth educational programs nationwide including (workshops,
summits, conferences, training, science-technology labs), Back to Schools
Initiatives (developmental higher education programs ‘stopping drop-out’), and
educational literacy programs using trainers, mentors, and professionals in
every field imaginable to educate our at-risk underserved and disenfranchised
communities; with our partners.
Throughout the years, we have
never been granted funding from any corporations or the Forbes 400. Many don’t
see helping at-risk youth unless it’s beneficial to them. Minority youth in this country are targeted with get-out-the-way tantrums in America but YDACBINC will not "leave any child behind". We heard this
metaphor before across our political circles but in 2013 we still have an increasing number of children
dropping out of school, and starving youth in their own schools, communities, and homes in major states across America. However, YDACBINC's mission is to eliminate the
questions of "why" this is happening and do more. The light is shining on us
because we must serve those in need.
This is why we do this.
Many of these youth and
their families can’t afford the basic supplies for their children to get
a fresh start on learning and development. With the cuts in education and
outreach across the country, YDACBINC continues to invest its time, passion,
materials, and sponsors to get the needed educational developmental programs to
expand the growth of our children.
We had over decades of
programs for thousands with 3 meals per day
(breakfast-lunch-early evening snack): with nutritious meals and
educational enrichment that includes: Reading for the mind “literacy”;
nutrition-health development, physical fitness programs, community garden
-produces sharing, conservation-ecology initiatives; technology-media labs, and
“Back 2 School” supplies for all at the beginning of the school year and
throughout in Atlanta, GA
Louisville-Jackson, MS,; Oklahoma City-Wewoka, OK; Washington,
DC-Brandywine, MD; and Brooklyn, NY; where we serve underserved youth who live
among the poverty lines with limited resources.
Our organization and its
partners cover all the disciplines below in the 8 states and 17 different
counties nationwide.
Hunger relief
According to Hunger in
America, seven states exhibited statistically significantly higher households for
insecurity rates than the US national average 2009-11 Mississippi 19.2%, Texas
18.5%, Arkansas 19.2%, Alabama 17.4%, Georgia 17.4%, Florida 16.2%, North
Carolina 17.1%., along with violence prevention throughout the summer.
Community feeding programs
that benefit children, seniors, and others at risk of hunger or with limited
access to food (e.g., backpack programs, elder feeding programs,)
Community development
Underserved communities who need
infrastructure or access to quality community parks-life amenities include recreational, health care, or educational facilities (e.g., parks, community health clinics,
technology,)
Education:
Programs about the
education of students and the promotion of the following fields of study: (K-12 & post-secondary; Technology
labs: Agriculture-workshop: Conservation-Ecology stewardship; Building Future:
Food safety
During each program/event, we will have special guest speakers that will address various issues school safety, youth school violence; bullying (i.e. family health coverage and nutrition issues, youth education with community produce projects, higher learning scholarship representation, internet safety, etc.) that concerns parents and youth in those targeted communities by internet tagging.
Closing: Why should it be
a question about caring for these at-risk youth or changing their lives in America
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