violence

The Caribbean Festival took over the streets in Boston's Dorchester and Roxbury, to the delight of 700,000 peaceful participants. (photo: Lolita Parker Jr., dotnews.com)

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Deval Patrick, governor of Massachusetts (photo: mass.gov)

The following article is from DotNews.com, posted on July 10, 2008.

Hiep Chu, director of Viet-AID, said his nonprofit social-services agency doesn't have the capacity to assist every parent who asks the group for help. (Photo from vietaid.org)

The following is an excerpt from an article in the weekly Dorchester Reporter.

At a meeting last Saturday [March 8, 2008] to strategize against youth violence, some parents saw it for the f

Map of Haiti and flag of the country. (Image from state.gov)

The following article is from the Boston Haitian Reporter.

The Twa Zanmi [Three Friends] project - a collaboration between the Haitian American Public Health Initiative, Camera Mosaique of

Esta Soler, president of the Family Violence Prevention Fund (Courtesy photo: www.EndAbuse.org).

One in three. That's the chance women worldwide have of experiencing violence some time in their lives, according to the United Nations.

At a recent town meeting about the Safe Homes Initiative, state Sen. Dianne Wilkerson (above) said the crime-prevention program is "a total abdication of our responsibility...to be responsible for children." (Photo: mass.gov)

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As the old saying goes, children should be seen, not heard.