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A volunteer with New Virginia Majority made a FOIA request to get Norfolk Public Schools' information on the bus schedules and stops to help support the group's initiative to walk students safely home. However, he was told this would cost up to $489.
Norfolk’s Young Terrace neighborhood is where the Newark Community Street Team has been working with grassroots groups to tailor their intervention strategies for at-risk youth.
A new effort is underway to take back the community. That's what one non-profit is doing by walking students home from the bus stop due to crime in one Norfolk neighborhood.
A new initiative in one Norfolk community aims at curbing crime.
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Volunteers from New Virginia Majority have spent the past month walking students home from bus stops in the St. Paul’s community as part of a pilot program to curb gun violence in the area after parents reported hearing gunfire between 3 and 5 p.m. — around the same time children are returning home from school.