A T-shirt shop grows in Brooklyn – and brings hope to young lives
Jim O’Shea came to Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood as a priest. And as he looked at the community’s needs, he longed to have an impact that went beyond words.
Many of the young men he saw around him on the streets of “Bed-Stuy” were disconnected – neither working nor in school. Often they fell into gang activity.
“If you preach something but give no alternative, that’s just setting up for failure,” Father O’Shea says.
The alternative he came up with is a project called Reconnect Brooklyn. For young people whose future is at risk, it offers a way up that starts with
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