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Police are paid to protect your community, but you live here and it’s your job to make sure your community is safe.
— AMMA OLORIWAA! – Community Activist | Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn

Brooklyn native Amma Oloriwaa! works with Egbe Iwa Odo’kunrin Egbe Iwa Odo’binrin in preparing and empowering youth in New York City to assume age appropriate responsibilities. She works with families in neighborhoods from these so called “troubled and endangered” backgrounds and provides mentoring, workshops, and community services to them.


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