for president of the seattle king county and current executive committee officer or here today because of the results of the grand jury in ferguson refusing to indict the officer who shot and killed michael brown we're disappointed needless to say this is a huge blow to many of those who wanted to make certain that the law that justice worked it's not so much just the fact that the young man was shot and killed but more importantly that the family the parents one community who turned to the law to be able to make certain that it worked it failed us we wanted to make certain that we had a day in court an opportunity to hear what not just here in seattle but with all of the people pass this country who want to make certain that the justice system much better believe that all of brown's death should not be in vain that if we truly wanted to know what happens we've got to make the system better that means holding those a path bringing them to trial and we will not stop fighting until justice is served this matter goes beyond just what's taken place in the shooting death but against a police officer this is a failure of the system it has to deal with braces i'm what was it that made this black man seem like such a threat it's more than just one individual michael brown he represents the trayvon martin's of the world the air gardners of the world our own very own seattle robert e lee's of the world we've got to address those uncomfortable conversations about racism about education here we've got a stereotype of a man who had graduated from high school had a promising future but we're never going to know what he could have become because he was limited just by the color of his skin goes into the economics of it those who are poor versus those who are well off or have money all of those systems all and the quality of the childcare we have seen around was not really great and also those who started business there were not really succeed with that business because they lack of how to run the business so when we came together with  business and also computer to use their business and all this we done with africa chambre of commerce to succeed with this business decide that you can see as you can see from the picture lot of our sisters are in and that we are teaching about that and also the investigate they're going to get from the king county they'd really dip into that and to see how much gram of sugar is in each of the content of the dreams and we're doing that the community depend on success of its members and that success comes from running small business so i would like to invite  commerce i reach out to small businesses to lunch businesses that do wish to join us we are membership based organizations our air force had direct in two areas the first areas connecting companies from here with companies in africa guiding you on how to do business in africa our second and fourth is who all can to build that strengthen small businesses here in pacific northwest recently right now we are working with the port of seattle where we provide business training to truck curves we want them to understand how to run their trucking business success of fluid because if they succeed then they in a position to be able to help their brothers and sisters in africa are there for us helping them we are helping africa then also training on how to start and run a successful day care business we have trained over sixty african immigrants women we want to make sure that we follow up with those we've trained to make sure that we do meet their needs guide them if they wish to start a daycare business because we don't want to just provide the training and leave it so again we have a membership based organization is two zero six two five they gave out scars i think the gave out gloves and foodstuffs to the homeless people and these these youth organizations are doing a great job as nobody deserves to be on the street or cold at this time of the year so i think we should congratulate these these these youth along with him in r t i for doing what they could and i know that they will continue to do it and need been a part of the program for the last four years you know ever since i've been a junior i've been a part of the program so for the most sense not junior sophomore sorry about that so me and mike have been you know we're going to go for the last four years and so  not only a great great great program and great relationship that we've built and not only been a part of and i'm lucky i'm blessed to consider myself being a part of the fact that you know we're able to get together in the community do events like these and be able to get back to community as well as advocate for others that don't have any so for the most part on experience with being homeless and you know it's in a time and especially  seattle where it's cold outside in the winter that you know given back to any type of any type of group is necessary but the homeless youth is special because i don't think it's the right they deserve it i don't think that's something can even find if you're found with no shelter no home no food no clothes nothing and to put on your bag nowhere to go home and i feel necessary to feel safe or secure in any type of way shape or form in literally physically mentally or you know spiritually just a simple matter of fact that i believe that this is one very huge issues that we need to work on with in seattle there's a lot of different programs within mockingbird but there c l o that are already working  helpless and help the people who don't have much and who lost without a cause in the fact that they're only with the troll situation being young in the youth of course because you can't work you can't necessarily go get a job you technically have to go to school so and the system doors lead anywhere and you start you've got to start from somewhere community college is always an option and the sense of for that you go is better your life and movement progression as long as you're taking the right steps every single day you know thank to just basically give out supplies to the homeless giving out some scarves beanies gloves it's a great collaboration between us and seymour and and and the initiative because you know in spite of all the issues going on with the ferguson issues you know it's good to see our young people come up in actually give back to the community and it changes the whole perspective on young adults in our community and said again in the trouble they're giving our homeless they're giving out gloves and being nice to the homeless to me that speaks a lot more than then getting into trouble so i've been involved with the c r u fine prevention issue for about four or five years now before whatever you like to do you know there's a lot of opportunities out there you just have to be persistent you have to be ambitious you have to be angry to want actually succeed or you have to want to get into something and there is the support out there and you know there's a the homeless and giving back since thursday is thanksgiving we're giving back to the homeless and showing them that you know we do see that they're there and we're just giving back to them telling them like you know that we do hear about them and you know it is really nice to be here to prevention initiative where we work at seymour and this is called the warm the homeless and we came up with this idea to have the youth coordinating event to basically give back to the homeless downtown right now this is third avenue and yes lower downtown this is a very very popular area where a lot of the homeless people like to sleep in kind of you know they this is this is this is their home and we're here and for right now we're trying to give back and try to keep them warm by providing hot cocoa trees we  put together a package of gloves beanies and some scarves it's not much but you know it's something that we can give to give them that we can you know that we that we have so our youth are all these youth are a caseload well you know so here so basically we wanted to like mike said we wanted to give back to our community but we mostly wanted to have the youth coordinate their event because we feel that if they give back and have an impact on the community it will empower them and they'll feel like ok i can do something for my community and i can give back and it's not much like mike said it's not much it's just you know a little package that we put together but it's something especially around the holidays thanksgiving is coming up christmas and so it's a little something from us to them and it's always nice to be able to give back to your community especially those who are less fortunate and those that don't have much money actually this morning we gave  a package to a homeless man that we seen and he was you know really happy to get that package in like he was digging through his bags and he pulled out a bible and that was something that yeah it was very touching in heartwarming to know that some someone who doesn't have a lot just like him he has a space to get him through the hard hard days hardships and everything like that so we're grateful that we're blessed to be able to put together event like this and we're very grateful to safeway district of columbia city bakery safeway rainer vista was a gross club patrice these are all the people that basically gave to us all the stuff in the youth actually packaged all the stuff and now we're distributing all our donations everything here you see our donations from people in our community all the food all the pastries everything and it just lets you know like when you come together you can make a difference and you can help and so we're planning to do another one in december and we're going to keep doing it every year and we're going to try to do our best to give back as much as we can to our community especially to these people that are fortunate to have a home so yeah everybody's part of the sea out of your vision initiative you know these are all youth that case loads and that we're helping with school you know with anything they need they're here and they're given their time to the homeless so yeah that's basically i mean that's how many people are here today and the other question well we help out with we were put at risk youth and these kids some kids you know they're homeless some kids are dropouts some kids are you know truancy would you know some people are have issues with school and you know some kids are foster youth i mean all these kids have different situations our job is to basically just help them get back on their feet and back on track if it's helping them find a job helping them you know roll back and back to school if they have a court issue where they're to be there advocate to support them to walk them through life and just to make sure we support them and mentorship and where we get them involved once we have them on our caseload is to provide and have programs like this into to basically take them out and show me that there's more to life than just you know being in a gang war committing crimes committed violence it's a kind of how we promote what we do so with our with our program we provide various services so rant it's from like mentoring counseling tutoring employment so it varies from each youth has a different situation and some like you said some of our youth are homeless so we provide in trying to get them housing so they're you know not couch surfing and they have a stable home and a safe place to go home too i i just feel like young people a lot of them feel like they can make a difference but i think that just something as simple as this are you coordinating this event shows that they can impact have an impact on their community whether it's something as small as this given out scarves gloves anything like that that they can impact their community and this these type of events empowers them where they feel like ok i can make a difference and i can give back and yes i think it's something nice and yeah still i feel that you know you know every youth you know you might not know them you see him on the street you don't know their background their situation until you get to meet them you know a lot of people stereotype on the youth and and they you know it's bad when you see a youth on a street you think oh he's a violent kid but in reality they all got situations going on but when you get to meet these you and you get to actually interact with them you start to see that they're special people and that they also are going through something so we're just here to help them and then hopefully they can take this and help another person and we can keep this going that's kind of what we that's kind of our plan is what we want though this is our goal and you know like a of people are familiar with what's going on now with the mike brown in ferguson thing still doing something positive like this with the youth it's a it's a great feeling and it just shows that you know they're even though through all that's going on with the case and the protests and everything the trial that there is you out there doing something positive in trying to stay off the streets and making good choices so i'm glad that i was able to be a part of this event we also want to thank you guys and the program is called m m r to thank you