Keeping youths off the street and safe should be a main concern for any community. That is according to Timmy Stamp, a resident of the George Street neighborhood. Living on the Southside of the city in an area surrounded by rival gangs - Stamp sees it as a need to educate the upcoming generation. He has been doing that for the past 8 years with his afterschool program - where he pays trained teachers a stipend to tutor over a hundred students from three different neighborhoods. It is a costly program that is almost impossible to maintain for this hardworking shopkeeper, but he is determined to make a change in his community. Stamp, who is a primary school dropout himself, was once caught up in the gang world and now hopes he can give children in these crime ridden communities a chance to make a change. We caught with him today at his summer program.
If you would like to assist Timmy Stamp's afterschool program, you can find him in his store on Dean Street - exactly between Plues and George Streets.
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