Oronde McClain Foundation: An NGO to the Rescue Against Gun Violence
By: Dipak Haldar
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Oronde McClain, who himself is a survivor of Gun Violence, has come up to the rescue of children and people who are being a victim of this crime emerging and reaching heights in this modern world.

What is Gun Violence?

Before getting into the McClain Foundation’s purpose, we need to first know about gun violence and what it is. Gun Violence has emerged in the USA with a lack of gun regulation and potential killers being the owners of those. The major focus has been drawn upon this by the government and actions have been taken against those owners. But no light has been shed upon the children especially, those who have been a victim of gun violence and are suffering from mental illness. The reports have suggested that more than 25% of children in America have been a witness to this gun violence and are somewhere suffering inside without proper identification and care.

And these children are left suffering in a gruesome manner without any proper care. These result in the deaths of many children. Not just in America, but gun violence is a disastrous crime that has taken over the whole world and is creating a massive impact on the lives of different individuals. Those who are initiating such violence are sometimes considered as mentally ill or goons and are ignored in most cases.

About Oronde McClain

The original face behind this organization, Oronde McClain understands the traumatic phase that children have to go through as he has experienced the same when he was at the tender age of 10. This man of God is a native of Philadelphia who helps mentally disabled children who have been a victim of gun violence. Oronde is the person who believes in giving back to the community and bringing change all around the community through the means of peaceful protests. His main aim is to tell his own story, the traumatic and dangerous incident because of which he is suffering until now, and most probably will be facing it for his whole life. His protests are related to even the rights of the blacks that they are deprived of. “Black lives Matter” is the motto that we hear all around the country of the USA.

The Incident

The breathtaking incident that changed the course of life for Oronde, took place when he was a little child of 10. The historical and controversial ever-existing riot between the black and white community is one of the major reasons for his suffering. This incident happened where he was a mere passerby and got shot in a drive-by shooting near his East Mount Airy Home He is a gunshot survivor, who is a psych tech at Philadelphia VA Medical Center. This extremely disastrous incident took place in 2000, which left Oronde speechless for the next six months. He was also accustomed to a wheelchair for a year and a half. This made a huge impact on his emotions and even led to suicidal thoughts when he was just 12. Three years after that went by with a white helmet, that he had to wear to protect the sensitive area of the gunshot, the splintered 36 segments of which remains.

The man with the hands of Jesus himself on him tried to take his life near about 26 times when he was a teen. This is surprising as well as overwhelming for the listeners or readers who have learned about his life struggles. We, as readers can only feel pity for the life of gunshot survivors like him, but cannot even get close to the actual pain that he had to go through.

This death-like experience made him feel that gunshot should have worked back then but as they said, he had a purpose pre-designated by god for him, to fulfil and change other people’s lives.

Now McClain is a 31-year-old, father to five children. He lives in Philadelphia as a psych at VA Medical Center and helps children and people who are the victims of gunshot violence to survive and not take their lives. He sought his way out through peaceful protests and this laid the foundation of a very special organisation: McClain Foundation.

The motivation to run this organisation came from his grandfather, who told him that he is alive because of a destined purpose and has a plan already framed by the almighty for him.

He shared a very special thing with the people and that’s when he said that he has worked with veterans. Further, he added that he has never served in the army but his story is synonymous to that of the veterans, i.e, surviving gunshots. To climb that unending ladder of success which only got has put it out there for him.

For him, getting on the top and reaching heights was a tough job to accomplish but the unending motivation and energy made him reach those heights and be on the top.

Another unbelievable incident of his life was when he was declared dead in the hospital for 2 minutes and sixteen seconds followed by a week of coma. This made him realize that he had a purpose in life to fulfil.

McClain Foundation

Intending to protect the victims, Oronde McClain, through his organization, speaks at schools and community centers and meets the victims face to face. His belief to make a difference is one of the reasons this foundation came into existence. He not only meets the victims but teaches them to become a survivor in this world full of gunshot violence and crimes.

McClain Foundation is a Child Care NGO, that also provides accommodation for the homeless child and support the victims in a full-fledged way. The beneficiary of this accommodation is none but children who are surviving and are receiving medical treatment and are victims of mental illness and PTSD.

This foundation believes in both past and future to make the present count and aspire to designate a powerful and futuristic mindset. The vision of the foundation is simple. It is to strengthen the war violence or gunshot violence victims to become survivors, not voiceless.

PTSD Won’t Define Me- Oronde McClain

This is again marvelous writing by none other than the founder himself. Oronde wrote this book with a background of post-traumatic stress disorder, which helps cure or relieve stress and PTSD for military veterans in getting rid of the post-war trauma.

Oronde McClain has decided to share some coping skills through the help of this book. This is a wholesome form of content involving his life after the gunshot, his attempts of suicide, his struggle throughout and how he came out of that traumatic phase and decided to change the lives of others.

He also mentioned that he had always been that cool guy in the school but post the devastating incident of a gunshot, he became the most unwanted kid in the school, where other kids used to tease him and made him feel isolated, which indirectly forced him to attempt suicide more than 20 times. To buy the book, you can visit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09MZXWRKN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_9BNQES6B4RFQS3DWAECX?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

About Donation

As McClain Foundation is an NGO and provides accommodation for children suffering from gun violence and even their families who have lost someone because of such nuisance. A small hand of help would be much appreciated by our team and the people who require it. You can easily donate by visiting the website and opening the donation page or simply clicking on https://themcclainfoundation.org/donations/.

Oronde McClain foundation is a sponsored one and is proudly sponsored by a lot of major organisations of Philadelphia including the Philadelphia Police, Freedom Fleet LLC, Mothers In Charge, Mom for Peace, Michelle Joy MD, and many others.

His protests are related to even the rights of the blacks that they are deprived of. “Black lives Matter” is the motto that we hear all around the country of the USA.

This fight between blacks and whites is historical ad a solution to which is not yet found and hence major killings in the USA takes place every year, this being the reason. People kill each other to protect their dignity, which automatically leads to none but violence. Violence without guns is impossible in a massive state of the USA.

Many people were martyred because of this in the past and innumerable of them are killed even in the present. We are not even sure about the end of this chaos among the two communities.

The most famous speech of Martin Luther King Jr. was based upon this particular social evil. Because of such violence, more focus is being shed upon the lives of adults but not on children. They suffer in silence as they can’t express their actual feelings to anyone and that’s what Oronde stands for. Bully at schools and other education institutes is a common factor in this country, which leaves children depressed and suicidal.

We support Oronde because he has helped himself to get out of the trauma and now he is a kind man who not only provides accommodation to the victims but also understands their exact pain.

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