Voices of the Young: Fred Smith

Fred Smith

What will you do to help make your community a better place to live? That's the question my instructor of the program Know Thyself asked me and I told her that I can't change a community on my own, the people who live in the community must come together to make our environment a better place to live. I can help change and give ideas about changing the community. My main idea is to put or add more community centers in our neighborhood to keep the youth off the streets so they can't commit crimes, use, sell, or buy drugs. This also can keep teens off the streets. There needs to be a place where they can play sports, have tutors to help them with school work, and take them on field trips so youth can experience fun activities. I also believe that the government should tighten up on security to keep drugs off our streets and tighten up on the crime that is happening every day. We need to get the criminals off the streets that are killing our youth, teens, and adults. There is a need for jobs in the city because the unemployment rate is very high and if people can't get jobs, then there is nothing else for them to do, except commit crime and get involved with drugs and other illegal behaviors. I can help my community by standing up and become that person who can lead or guide us to make these changes.

Fred Smith

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