*In my Global Peace class for this section we learned about his term called Swadeshi. Swadeshi means ones self location. Ones self location is literally where somebody is, whether it's indoors or outdoors. So we are writing letters to our local community centers, our aldermans, and our somebody in our specific community that has control of it. I live in the Bronzeville community, so I dedicated my letter to the Alderman who runs the community and makes sure everything is copacetic. The 3rd Ward Alderman, Pat Dowell.
5046 South State Street
Chicago, IL 60609
Dear, 3rd Ward Alderman Pat Dowell
My name is Darrion Sutton, and I live in the Bronzeville Community. I am currently attending GCE (Global Citizenship Experience) High School north of Downtown Chicago. I am currently learning this term called Swadeshi. Meaning "One's self location." I have sent you this letter becasue there is a problem in my community that I see through my eyes. There are High School, and College dropouts. There are gangs, and unemployment and even kids that aren't even attending school. I see more and more of these problems growing every day in my neighborhood. My concern about this overall is the Violence in my neighborhood, becasue there are many children where I live at also. I have a little brother and he's 13 years old. He attends Mollison Grammar School and even he has experienced violence around our home and his school.
This problem affects this local economy harshly, because with businesses being around gang territories, it's hard for people to go shopping for clothes, groceries, many other things without "others" harassing them. This problem also affects the local economy because even though there are Safe Passages around the neighborhood bad things can still happen. For example, a police officer may sit on the corner of 47th and King, but he/she cannot see all the way down the block (47th - 43rd) where worse things could be happening.
I have a solution to most of the violence that I've been seeing lately. Even though there are many centers where kids can go if they're out of school or if they're not even attending school, I think there should be a center that has activities and clubs that kids actually wants to do. Such as poetry clubs, music and engineering, basketball, cooking clubs, and stuff that kids like to do. Most of the centers has little to none of these activities, and if they do the centers aren’t usually serious about the clubs that are going on anyways.
If this plan goes can go over well I think there will be less youth on the streets and more of them doing things that shows their true talents. Thank you for at least reading this letter and taking in the information that somebody wants to change.
Darrion Sutton
Global Citizenship Experience High School
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