How new Walthamstow youth centre hopes to save young lives | East London and West Essex Guardian Series
The Project Zero team (Project Zero) A non-profit aiming to end the violent deaths of Waltham Forest’s young people is set to open a new centre this month. Steve Barnabis, 48, founded the Soul Project to offer a free space for young people on Wood Street, Walthamstow, in 2006, two years after losing a teenage cousin to violent crime. In 2018, the project was evicted by the building’s new owner and reformed as Project Zero, so named for its goal to see a year where zero young people died from gun or knife crime. After a short stint operating out of the CRATE Building, the project n...
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