Hugs No Slugs

HugsNoSlugs is a grass roots effort to  protect the lives of innocent Chicago area children living amongst gun violence. August was the deadliest month in Chicago in nearly 20 years. Eighty six (86) people were killed, most of them in gun violence. Four hundred seventy-two (472) people were shot.

"There's kids being shot, women being killed. We're losing all of the men in our households to gun violence and the penitentiary. Every single day, all I hear is police cars, shooting. There's not one day that goes by that I don't hear those things."

HugsNoSlugs targets children in the highest risk communities where  gang violence and gun death are daily occurrences and children, lacking any other positive role model, aspire to be " like my big homie."

Founded by Chicago South Side activist and mother, Aleta Clark, HugsNoSlugs researches and employs all resources available to create a productive, positive, safe, recreational atmosphere for these youth. 

Children are innocent. They deserve the right to feel safe in their homes and neighborhoods. HugsNoSlugs moves in memory of all the children who have lost their lives to gun violence, and strives to work as hard as possible to prevent such tragedy from continuing to occur.   

Your GoFundMe donation will be used to provide stipends for positive  and responsible adult community mentors for these at risk children.

"I think a lot of the issues surrounding these poverty stricken communities are resourced based. A lot of youth don't have positive leadership in their communities to look up to ....to hang with or to talk to....  to teach them how to resolve disagreements without it resulting in gun violence.

For more information on HugsNoSlugs 
 http://www.npr.org/2016/09/03/492516860/with-deadliest-month-in-20-years-chicago-mother-desensitized-to-gunshots 

Join us as we move toward love & safety for our innocent children at great risk for violence and death in their own neighborhood.

We can't do it alone.

"It takes a Village to raise a child and an even bigger one to keep them safe."