For South Florida's Peacemakers, stopping the shootings begins with helping people with daily needs — from diapers and groceries to medical care.
Peacemakers have a debrief before concluding their work for the day at the Lincoln Fields apartments complex in Miami, Fla. Lamont Nanton is the group's manager and Shameka Pierce works with the group.
"If you plant the seeds now, before something happens, when something happens it's that much easier to engage and get involved because you're a familiar face," says Peacemakers' manager, Lamont Nanton."If you just show up on the scene, after a shooting, and they're not familiar with you, you're just like the police."
"This is my way of reconciling that life that I once lived and reach some other young folks that are heading down that same path and let them know that there is another way to live, there's another way to think," he says. The Peacemakers may not be able to solve all of the problems they come across, but they come wanting to listen. They also connect residents with supplies. During the pandemic they handed out necessities like masks. They also tell residents about accessible medical care that they may not know about, like the
"Peacemakers are able to make a livable wage, feed their families and do this work full time – it's tremendous," says Muhammad. He says it's"unprecedented" for a health foundation to back this kind of work."That's a tremendous boost to be able to keep the boots on the ground."Peacemaker Olivia Eason stands outside of the Lincoln Fields apartments in Miami, Fla.
"Growing up at urban areas was hard," Eason says."It's hard mentally, physically, emotionally. All we trying to do is build relationships and get our community the help and the resources that it needs."
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