As you round the corner on your evening stroll, several blocks from your home after dinner, you see a small group of teenagers hanging around the corner you are approaching. You notice that all of the boys have shaved heads, and are wearing loose fitting shirts and baggy pants. As you get closer you get a chill up your spine as you notice that they are staring at you. Decidedly, you cross the street.
Children join gangs for many reasons.
Perhaps it is because they have had to grow up too quickly only to enter a world where they feel they have no control. For these and many other reasons involving community, educational, family, social, and political factors a very young boy or girl will find themselves being solicited for membership in a gang. One thing is certain, once a child is in a gang the gang's life and traditions become the only way of life these children will ever know. Where everyone, except another fellow gang member, is perceived as the enemy. The Foundation will begin several Scouting Units for boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 14 as an alternative to gang membership.