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The Ä¢¹½´«Ã½-affiliated Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence<\/a> has introduced its newest project in response to the recent uptick in hate crimes. Youth Healing Hate: Remedies for Fear and Hostility aims to address core issues in the Rochester community and society at large through youth projects. These projects will use art, technology, dialogue, and more to bridge the misunderstanding that leads to hateful rhetoric and actions.<\/p>\n

This initiative will provide grants of up to $1,000 for 11 local youth teams. The participating projects, listed below, vary widely in design from a refugee cultural fair to a youth-police talent show to community mural paintings. Each team is responsible for developing, managing, and implementing their own project.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis project is intended to address the root causes of hate and incivility,\u201d says Kit Miller, director of the institute, located at 929 South Plymouth Avenue. \u201cWe hope it inspires other communities to turn their youth loose on problem solving too.\u201d<\/p>\n

Miller pays tribute to the inspiration for this program, Dr. Howard Thurman, a mentor of Martin Luther King Jr. and an alumnus of the Colgate Rochester Crozier Divinity School.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe wrote about the dangers to a society when hatred becomes respectable,\u201d Miller says.<\/p>\n

The funding for these grants is sponsored by the Farash Foundation<\/a>, which provides grants to community organizations in Monroe and Ontario counties.<\/p>\n

Remedies for Fear and Hostility recipients<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Common Box,\u201d designed by Hadassha Rivera, is an interactive workshop that aims to bring together individuals from diverse backgrounds and find common ground.<\/p>\n

\u201cROCKidsCONNECT,\u201d designed by Griffin Cross, is a student exchange program between high school students from the Pittsford Central School District and an urban Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC) charter school to help students develop a deeper understanding of the racial and socioeconomic diversity in the Greater Rochester community.<\/p>\n

\u201cCollaborating to Connect,\u201d designed by Maya Waller, hopes to bring Rochester City School District students and police officers together to paint murals.<\/p>\n

\u201cProject Awareness,\u201d designed by Malik Jaff and Thomas Cuyler, is a research project that uses GIS technology to map and catalogue the physical locations of hate crimes against Muslims.<\/p>\n

\u201cPainting Peace,\u201d designed by Latina Chatman, Gina Verdin, and Kyle Skovira, will organize a peace march and mural painting.<\/p>\n

\u201cMCC Upward Bound Police Civilian Talent Slam,\u201d designed by Isabel Hernandez, is a talent show that brings together contestants from both police and civilian backgrounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeers to Peace,\u201d designed by Kaiya Thomas, is a series of interactive workshops that aim to heal hostility between African American and Latino students.<\/p>\n

\u201cHate Fears Love: An Open Hearted Exploration,\u201d designed by Kasim Wallace, aims to publish four monthly magazine issues that investigate the history of social topics within Rochester.<\/p>\n

\u201cArt Shakedown,\u201d designed by Gianina Spano, is an interactive community event that aims to promote peace and unity through mural painting, a drum circle, and meditation.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeace and Love,\u201d designed by Iyanna Davis and Laura Jean Drake, will work with 6th<\/sup> grade teachers to address bullying by tie-dyeing t-shirts with positive messages for their students.<\/p>\n

\u201cSocial Justice Theater,\u201d designed by Robert Ricks and Tayalsia Smith, will produce two theatrical performances that address bullying in school and promote pride in African-American history.<\/p>\n

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