Kush teaches

Our art workshop with Kush, one of the artists at Huma House teaching his craft. Genea speaks about the day:

“We forget that the simple things like daring to step into someone's world and allowing them into your is the most important. This mends bridges and heals hearts. This is what Huma House and Big Dogg are doing, getting back to the basics and simply revealing heart by providing safe space and experience to our youths not teaching at them but learning and growing with them” -Genea Richardson

Huma Summer Begins

The kids above our the graduates of the Big Dogg Gang Intervention and Violence Prevention. They wanted to extend their sessions and asked for a summer program. Huma was starting one and we teamed up with Big Dogg and decided to do it together. We started in a scramble but we had to make this happen, too much was aligning. Through persistence and a lot of excitement - we moved forward. Tomorrow is our first day of Huma Summer.

I will drive to 101st street in South Central LA in a big 12 passenger van and Qadir will be waiting for me with 10 kids at the bus stop ready to start the program. Qadir is a Program Director at Big Dogg who has been working with our group for the past 6 months. Qadir came home from prison and intentionally decided to live right in the frying pan to be a mentor for these teens and be an integral leader in his community to teach techniques on Violence Prevention. My soul expands to the size of the whole metropolitan city. I feel such light. We were hustling to find a van to provide a safe passage for the kids and the cost was $498.00. This was way over what we allotted in our budget. And then, 4 days ago, just 4 days before the class starts we get an anonymous donation…for $500. This is only the universal pulsing force of L-O-V-E catapulting us to our goal. I feel so grateful to have this opportunity. I feel so happy to participate in this experience! Huma Summer begins.