If you watched the news last night - you'll know how much violence there was in the city over the weekend. But after the headlines fade, the scars remain especially for child who live in violent neighborhoods, or families targeted by crime. The One Struggle group - which is made up of mothers who have lost their sons to violence - spent yesterday reaching out to those mothers - who now have the misfortune of joining their sisterhood.
And while the mothers need consoling Phillip Willoughby who founded the group says as they go to different houses they see pain and trauma in the young male children:...
Phillip Willoughby
"What we've found since One Struggle with the young men who are limited to the wheel chairs, have visited the schools, is that these students are still affected by the psychological trauma. These young men are hurting you know. When we visited another case, when we visited several homes, not only in the Port Loyola area, in the wider Belize City area, these mothers can vouch and say to you that a 2, 3, 5 year old that can speak is saying that is the P who killed my father. We need to find these children and try to work with them. If we don't do so, we will be in a sad state of affairs when these toddlers become teenagers and young men with all the pain that is going around in their little minds. Because all they are seeking is that someone took my dad, someone took my brother, my loved one - that is a problem and we have these young men in our streets, we have them in our schools. It's a problem and someone has to address it. We are trying with what we have to reach out and network and work."
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