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>> reporter: motor city. motown. in its heyday, detroit thrived. a place of economic opportunity and growth. a place 15-year-old ivory price ownle hears about. >> my grandma will show me pictures of what it used to be. >> reporter: one of the country's highest unemployment rates. so many businesses shut down. so many homes abandon. >> can you break up the bottom of it? >>. >> reporter: ivory believes there is a way to get detroit growing. >> planting one seed can help towards the go. >> reporter: we found her with a group of volunteers planting a garden in one of detroit's worst neighborhoods....

Definitely help towards that goal. >> reporter: we found ivory with a group of volunteers planting a garden in an abandoned lot in one of detroit's worst neighborhoods. >> like this. >> reporter: she volunteers for an organization called build on. it's a nonprofit that created after-school programs where students help rebuild impoverished areas. here, they reclaim land with a garden. eventually they'll donate the food they grow. >> we've definitely encountered people even with this project and other times in build on saying that, oh, that's impossible, you can't do that. you should just leave ...

To get detroit growing again. >> just planting one seed can definitely help towards that goal. >> reporter: we found ivory with a group of volunteers planting a garden in an abandoned lot in one of detroit's worst neighborhoods. she volunteers for an organize called build on, a nonprofit that created afterschool programs where students help rebuild impoverished areas. here they reclaim land way garden and eventually they'll donate the food they grow. >> we have definitely encountered people within this project and other times in build on, that's impossible. you can't do that. leave it alone. w...

Prostitution that takes place right here on what used to be a playground. while shooting in prood daylight, a woman stopped to make sure we were okay. a group of volunteers put together a garden over here. >> that's nice. that's great. >> reporter: you like that? >> the area itself, you just don't feel safe anymore. >> before our kids begin projects -- >> reporter: build on's founder says this is just the beginning. >> the rest of the neighborhood sees what's going on and how the youth of stepping up and leading the change. they take a stake in the garden and the gangs move out and the prostit...

How they're building up america. >> reporter: want to tell you about a remarkable young woman by the name of ivory price. she spends much of her time after school with an organization called build on. build on has students volunteering all across the country. but in detroit, t.j., ivory and the others are helping one of the city's worst neighborhoods literally dig its way out. motor city -- sthoet ♪ motown. in its heyday, detroit thrived, a place of economic opportunity and growth. a place 15-year-old ivory price only hears about. >> my grandma will show me pictures of what it used to be. >>...