“Boxing is the backdrop. Boxing is the catalyst. Any kid that comes past the gym, they want to be a champion. But what happens in here…we do build champions in boxing, but we build, mostly, champions at life. We have a number of students that avoided pitfalls. We CAN do rehabilitation, but we don’t do rehabilitation. We do prevention.”
Read MoreThe main hub of our work is community work. We work in seven different communities right now. Some of the communities we’ve been working in a couple, two, three years…there’s others that go back 30, 40 years. In that time, for those communities that we’ve worked in for a long time, we’ve seen the infrastructure grow. Maybe there were dirt roads before, no water, no power…they have those things now. Kids are more apt to go to school and get an education, which is a great thing. But the spiritual climate hasn’t changed. And so, our message is, God loves you.
Read MoreToday’s blog comes from a conversation I had with Alicia Saake, the COO of Feeding San Diego. Read below to learn about food waste and food insecurity in our neighborhoods, and how YOU can help alleviate these problems in your community!
Read MoreSearch Dog Resources was formed from a group of people that have the same mission in mind, and that is to aid law enforcement to find lost people, whether it be an Alzheimer’s patient, whether it be a child, whether it be a hiker, whether it be somebody that hasn't returned for quite awhile…and we get together two or three times a week to train for those missions.
We have dogs in different disciplines. We have trailing, which works like a bloodhound that needs a scent article and hopefully will be able to follow that scent of that person only. And then we have what they call area dogs, which are non-scent specific and they will find any human scent. It takes two to three years to get a certified dog to gain mission-ready status.
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