AUSTIN (KXAN) — Community members in east Austin held a workshop to educate children about gun violence, hoping to counter recent situations where teens have been hurt in shootings.
The workshop was organized through grassroot nonprofits We Can Now , Urban-Alchemy and Hungry Hill Foundation , as well as some faculty from Huston-Tillotson University .
“We want to address the issue in our community right now, which is gun violence,” said Chase Wright, the executive director of Hungry Hill Foundation. “The best way to do that is incentivizing our kids to open up their ears.”…